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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.

Faraday is a Ruby gem that provides a simple and flexible interface for making HTTP requests. It allows you to create a Faraday connection object, which you can use to send requests and receive responses.

Faraday abstracts away the details of the underlying HTTP client library, so you can use it with different libraries such as Net::HTTP, HTTPClient, typhoeus and others.

Since Faraday can adapt many other HTTP clients it's very popular choice in web scraping.

Highlights


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Example Use


```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') ```
```ruby # GET requests response = Faraday.get('http://httpbingo.org') put response.status put response.headers put response.body # or use a persistent client session: conn = Faraday.new( url: 'http://httpbin.org/get', params: {param: '1'}, headers: {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} ) # POST requests response = conn.post('/post') do |req| req.params['limit'] = 100 req.body = {query: 'chunky bacon'}.to_json end ```

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