ajax-request

Http request for nodejs, and it also support file download


Keywords
request, http, ajax, http download, image, json, resource, download, file download, base64, image base64
License
ISC
Install
npm install ajax-request@1.2.3

Documentation

ajax-request — Simplified http request

NPM

var request = require('ajax-request');

install

npm install ajax-request --save

test

mocha

API

request(options, callback)

  • {obejct|string} options required
    If the options is string, it will send get request.
    • {string} options.url required
    • {string} options.method [options.method=GET]
      The http request type
    • {obejct} options.data
      if the request type is GET, it's appended to query string of the URL, or it's sended to remote of body.
    • {object} options.headers
      An object containing request headers.
    • {string} options.encoding
      Set response data encoding
    • {boolean} options.isBuffer [options.isBuffer=false]
      Parse response data to buffer
    • {boolean} options.json [options.json=false]
      Parse response data to json
  • {function} callback required
request('url', function(err, res, body) {});

request({
  url: '',
  method: 'GET',
  data: {
    query1: 'value1'
  }
}, function(err, res, body) {
  
});

.post(options, callback)

The API same as request

request.post({
  url: 'url',
  data: {},
  headers: {}
});

.download(options, callback)

  • {obejct} options required
    • options.url {string} required
    • options.ignore {boolean} [options.ignore=false]
      Is the filepath ignore case.
    • options.rootPath {string} [options.rootPath='']
      The root of dest path
    • options.destPath {string|function}
      Custom the download path.
  • {function} callback required
request.download({
  url: 'path/index.png',
  rootPath: ''
}, function(err, res, body, destpath) {});

request.download({
  url: 'path/index.png',
  destPath: function(filename) {
    return filename;
  }
}, function(err, res, body, destpath) { });

.base64(url, callback)

Deprecated, move to base64