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Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. It allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests with various methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and others.

Guzzle also supports sending both synchronous and asynchronous requests, caching, and even has built-in support for OAuth 1.0a. Additionally, it can handle different HTTP errors and handle redirects automatically. It also has built-in support for serializing and deserializing data using formats like JSON and XML, as well as sending multipart file uploads.

Overall Guzzle is an easy to use and powerful library for working with HTTP in PHP.

Typhoeus is a Ruby library that allows you to make parallel HTTP requests, which can greatly speed up the process of making multiple requests to different servers. It is built on top of the C library libcurl, which is known for its high performance and reliability.

One of the main features of Typhoeus is its ability to make parallel requests. This means that it can send multiple requests at the same time, and wait for all of them to finish before returning the results. This can greatly reduce the time it takes to make multiple requests, as it eliminates the need to wait for each request to complete before sending the next one.

In addition to its parallelism feature, Typhoeus also provides a convenient and easy-to-use Ruby interface for making HTTP requests. It supports all of the common HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) and allows you to set various request options, such as headers, timeouts, and authentication. It also supports streaming responses, which allows you to process large responses piece by piece, rather than loading the entire response into memory at once.

Typhoeus is also supports HTTP/2 protocol which provides faster load times and reduced network usage. It also supports streaming which is an essential feature for large data transfer.

Typhoeus is well-documented, actively maintained, and has a large and active community of users. It is widely used in the Ruby ecosystem and is a popular choice for building high-performance web scraping and data-gathering applications.

Note that Typhoeus can also be used as an adapter in popular alternative package Faraday.

Highlights

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Example Use

```php use GuzzleHttp\Client; // Create a client session: $client = new Client(); // can also set session details like headers $client = new Client([ 'headers' => [ 'User-Agent' => 'webscraping.fyi', ] ]); // GET request: $response = $client->get('http://httpbin.org/get'); // print all details var_dump($response); // or the important bits printf("status: %s\n", $response->getStatusCode()); printf("headers: %s\n", json_encode($response->getHeaders(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)); printf("body: %s", $response->getBody()->getContents()); // POST request $response = $client->post( 'https://httpbin.org/post', // for JSON use json argument: ['json' => ['query' => 'foobar', 'page' => 2]] // or formdata use form_params: // ['form_params' => ['query' => 'foobar', 'page' => 2]] ); // For ASYNC requests getAsync function can be used: $promise1 = $client->getAsync('https://httpbin.org/get'); $promise2 = $client->getAsync('https://httpbin.org/get?foo=bar'); // await it: $results = Promise\unwrap([$promise1, $promise2]); foreach ($results as $result) { echo $result->getBody(); } // or add promise callback Promise\each([$promise1, $promise2], function ($response, $index, $callable) { echo $response->getBody(); }); ```

```go # GET request Typhoeus.get("www.example.com") # POST request Typhoeus.post("www.example.com/posts", body: { title: "test post", content: "this is my test"}) # make parallel requests: # hydra is a request queue manager hydra = Typhoeus::Hydra.hydra # create request object first_request = Typhoeus::Request.new("http://example.com/posts/1") # add complete callbacks first_request.on_complete do |response| # callbacks can queue new requests third_url = response.body third_request = Typhoeus::Request.new(third_url) hydra.queue third_request end second_request = Typhoeus::Request.new("http://example.com/posts/2") # queue requests: hydra.queue first_request hydra.queue second_request hydra.run # this is a blocking call that returns once all requests are complete ```

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