wreckvssuperagent
Wreck is an HTTP client library for Node.js. It provides a simple, consistent API for making HTTP requests, including support for both the client and server side of an HTTP transaction.
Wreck is a very minimal but stable as it's part of Hapi web framework project. For web scraping, it doesn't offer required features like proxy configuration or http2 support so it's not recommended.
superagent 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.
what differentiates superagent from other http clients is its simple declarative API.
Highlights
declarativeproxypopular
Example Use
```javascript
const Wreck = require('wreck');
// get request
Wreck.get('http://example.com', (err, res, payload) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log(payload.toString());
});
// post request
const options = {
headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
payload: JSON.stringify({ name: 'John Doe' })
};
Wreck.post('http://example.com', options, (err, res, payload) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log(payload.toString());
});
```
```javascript
const superagent = require('superagent');
// superagent supports both Promises and async/await
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
.then(res => console.log(res.text))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
const response = superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
// post requests:
superagent.post('https://httpbin.org/post').send({ name: 'John Doe' })
// setting proxy
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/ip').proxy('http://proxy.example.com:8080')
// settings headers and proxies
superagent.get('https://httpbin.org/headers').set('Cookie', 'myCookie=123').set('X-My-Header', 'myValue')
```