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wreck

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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.

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()); }); ```

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