got
Got is a lightweight and powerful HTTP client for Node.js. It is built on top of the http and https modules and provides a simple, consistent API for making HTTP requests.
Got is one of the most feature-rich http clients in NodeJS ecosystem offering http2, proxy and asynchronous support making it ideal for web scraping.
Got also supports many specific domain integrations like AWS, plugins for various public APIs like github.
Note that Got has some inconsistent behaviors when it comes to web scraping use.
For example, it normalizes http headers
which is undesired functionality in scraping and should be disabled.
Highlights
Example Use
```python const got = require('got');
// GET requests are default and can be made calling the module as is: const response = await got('https://api.example.com'); console.log(response.body);
// POST requests can send const response = await got.post('https://api.example.com', { json: { name: 'John Doe' }, }); console.log(response.body);
// handling cookies import {CookieJar} from 'tough-cookie';
const cookieJar = new CookieJar();
await cookieJar.setCookie('foo=bar', 'https://httpbin.org'); await got('https://httpbin.org/anything', {cookieJar});
// using proxy import got from 'got'; import {HttpsProxyAgent} from 'hpagent';
await got('https://httpbin.org/ip', { agent: { https: new HttpsProxyAgent({ keepAlive: true, keepAliveMsecs: 1000, maxSockets: 256, maxFreeSockets: 256, scheduling: 'lifo', proxy: 'https://localhost:8080' }) } }); ```