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needle is an HTTP client library for Node.js that provides a simple, flexible, and powerful API for making HTTP requests. It supports all major HTTP methods and has a clean and easy-to-use interface for handling responses and errors.

Pure Ruby, framework and transport agnostic, implementation of HTTP/2 protocol and HPACK header compression with support for:

  • Binary framing parsing and encoding
  • Stream multiplexing and prioritization
  • Connection and stream flow control
  • Header compression and server push
  • Connection and stream management
  • And more... see API docs

Protocol specifications:

  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (RFC 7540)
  • HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2 (RFC 7541)

Highlights


http2

Example Use


```javascript const needle = require('needle'); // needle supports both Promises and async/await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/get', (err, res) => { if (err) { console.error(err); return; } console.log(res.body); }); const response = await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/get') // concurrent requests can be sent using Promise.all const results = await Promise.all([ needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'), needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'), needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'), ]) // POST requests const data = { name: 'John Doe' }; await needle.post('https://api.example.com', data) // proxy const options = { proxy: 'http://proxy.example.com:8080' }; await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/ip', options) // headers and cookies const options = { headers: { 'Cookie': 'myCookie=123', 'X-My-Header': 'myValue' } }; await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/headers', options) ```
```ruby require 'http/2' # GET request client = HTTP2::Client.new response = client.get("https://httpbin.org/get") puts response.body # POST reuqest data = { name: "value" } response = client.post("https://www.example.com", data) ```

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