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superagent

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9.0.2 (29 Apr 2024) Aug 22 2011 38.4 million (month)

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


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Example Use


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')

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