Haha-Yes/node_modules/miniget/README.md
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node-miniget

A small http(s) GET library with redirects, retries, reconnects, concatenating or streaming, and no dependencies. This keeps filesize small for potential browser use.

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Usage

Concatenates a response

const miniget = require('miniget');

miniget('http://mywebsite.com', (err, body) => {
  console.log('webpage contents: ', body);
}));

Request can be streamed right away

miniget('http://api.mywebsite.com/v1/messages.json')
  .pipe(someWritableStream());

API

miniget(url, [options], [callback(err, body)])

Makes a GET request. options can have any properties from the http.request() function, in addition to

  • maxRedirects - Default is 2.
  • maxRetries - Number of times to retry the request if there is a 500 or connection error. Default is 1.
  • maxReconnects - During a big download, if there is a disconnect, miniget can try to reconnect and continue the download where it left off. Defaults to 0.
  • backoff - An object with inc and max used to calculate how long to wait to retry a request. Defaults to { inc: 100, max: 10000 }.
  • highWaterMark - Amount of data to buffer when in stream mode.
  • transform - Use this to add additional features. Called with the object that http.get() or https.get() would be called with. Must return a transformed object.

If callback is given, will concatenate the response, and call callback with a possible error, and the response body.

Miniget returns a readable stream if callback is not given, errors will then be emitted on the stream. Returned stream also contains an .abort() method.

Install

npm install miniget

Tests

Tests are written with mocha

npm test