# urllib [![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![Node.js CI](https://github.com/node-modules/urllib/actions/workflows/nodejs.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/node-modules/urllib/actions/workflows/nodejs.yml) [![Test coverage][codecov-image]][codecov-url] [![Known Vulnerabilities][snyk-image]][snyk-url] [![npm download][download-image]][download-url] [npm-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/urllib.svg?style=flat-square [npm-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/urllib [codecov-image]: https://codecov.io/gh/node-modules/urllib/branch/master/graph/badge.svg [codecov-url]: https://codecov.io/gh/node-modules/urllib [snyk-image]: https://snyk.io/test/npm/urllib/badge.svg?style=flat-square [snyk-url]: https://snyk.io/test/npm/urllib [download-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/urllib.svg?style=flat-square [download-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/urllib Request HTTP URLs in a complex world — basic and digest authentication, redirections, timeout and more. ## Install ```bash npm install urllib ``` ## Usage ### TypeScript and ESM ```ts import { request } from 'urllib'; const { data, res } = await request('http://cnodejs.org/'); // result: { data: Buffer, res: Response } console.log('status: %s, body size: %d, headers: %j', res.status, data.length, res.headers); ``` ### CommonJS ```js const { request } = require('urllib'); const { data, res } = await request('http://cnodejs.org/'); // result: { data: Buffer, res: Response } console.log('status: %s, body size: %d, headers: %j', res.status, data.length, res.headers); ``` ## API Doc ### Method: `async request(url[, options])` #### Arguments - **url** String | Object - The URL to request, either a String or a Object that return by [url.parse](https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_url_parse_urlstr_parsequerystring_slashesdenotehost). - ***options*** Object - Optional - ***method*** String - Request method, defaults to `GET`. Could be `GET`, `POST`, `DELETE` or `PUT`. Alias 'type'. - ***data*** Object - Data to be sent. Will be stringify automatically. - ***content*** String | [Buffer](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html) - Manually set the content of payload. If set, `data` will be ignored. - ***stream*** [stream.Readable](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_readable) - Stream to be pipe to the remote. If set, `data` and `content` will be ignored. - ***writeStream*** [stream.Writable](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_writable) - A writable stream to be piped by the response stream. Responding data will be write to this stream and `callback` will be called with `data` set `null` after finished writing. - ***files*** {Array | Object | ReadStream | Buffer | String - The files will send with `multipart/form-data` format, base on `formstream`. If `method` not set, will use `POST` method by default. - ***contentType*** String - Type of request data. Could be `json` (**Notes**: not use `application/json` here). If it's `json`, will auto set `Content-Type: application/json` header. - ***dataType*** String - Type of response data. Could be `text` or `json`. If it's `text`, the `callback`ed `data` would be a String. If it's `json`, the `data` of callback would be a parsed JSON Object and will auto set `Accept: application/json` header. Default `callback`ed `data` would be a `Buffer`. - **fixJSONCtlChars** Boolean - Fix the control characters (U+0000 through U+001F) before JSON parse response. Default is `false`. - ***headers*** Object - Request headers. - ***timeout*** Number | Array - Request timeout in milliseconds for connecting phase and response receiving phase. Default is `5000`. You can use `timeout: 5000` to tell urllib use same timeout on two phase or set them seperately such as `timeout: [3000, 5000]`, which will set connecting timeout to 3s and response 5s. - **keepAliveTimeout** `number | null` - Default is `4000`, 4 seconds - The timeout after which a socket without active requests will time out. Monitors time between activity on a connected socket. This value may be overridden by *keep-alive* hints from the server. See [MDN: HTTP - Headers - Keep-Alive directives](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Keep-Alive#directives) for more details. - ***auth*** String - `username:password` used in HTTP Basic Authorization. - ***digestAuth*** String - `username:password` used in HTTP [Digest Authorization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication). - ***followRedirect*** Boolean - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. defaults to true. - ***maxRedirects*** Number - The maximum number of redirects to follow, defaults to 10. - ***formatRedirectUrl*** Function - Format the redirect url by your self. Default is `url.resolve(from, to)`. - ***beforeRequest*** Function - Before request hook, you can change every thing here. - ***streaming*** Boolean - let you get the `res` object when request connected, default `false`. alias `customResponse` - ***compressed*** Boolean - Accept `gzip, br` response content and auto decode it, default is `true`. - ***timing*** Boolean - Enable timing or not, default is `true`. - ***socketPath*** String | null - request a unix socket service, default is `null`. - ***highWaterMark*** Number - default is `67108864`, 64 KiB. #### Options: `options.data` When making a request: ```js await request('https://example.com', { method: 'GET', data: { 'a': 'hello', 'b': 'world', }, }); ``` For `GET` request, `data` will be stringify to query string, e.g. `http://example.com/?a=hello&b=world`. For others like `POST`, `PATCH` or `PUT` request, in defaults, the `data` will be stringify into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format if `content-type` header is not set. If `content-type` is `application/json`, the `data` will be `JSON.stringify` to JSON data format. #### Options: `options.content` `options.content` is useful when you wish to construct the request body by yourself, for example making a `content-type: application/json` request. Notes that if you want to send a JSON body, you should stringify it yourself: ```js await request('https://example.com', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, content: JSON.stringify({ a: 'hello', b: 'world', }), }); ``` It would make a HTTP request like: ```bash POST / HTTP/1.1 host: example.com content-type: application/json { "a": "hello", "b": "world" } ``` This exmaple can use `options.data` with `application/json` content type: ```js await request('https://example.com', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }, data: { a: 'hello', b: 'world', } }); ``` #### Options: `options.files` Upload a file with a `hello` field. ```js await request('https://example.com/upload', { method: 'POST', files: __filename, data: { hello: 'hello urllib', }, }); ``` Upload multi files with a `hello` field. ```js await request('https://example.com/upload', { method: 'POST', files: [ __filename, fs.createReadStream(__filename), Buffer.from('mock file content'), ], data: { hello: 'hello urllib with multi files', }, }); ``` Custom file field name with `uploadfile`. ```js await request('https://example.com/upload', { method: 'POST', files: { uploadfile: __filename, }, }); ``` ### Response Object Response is normal object, it contains: - `status` or `statusCode`: response status code. - `-1` meaning some network error like `ENOTFOUND` - `-2` meaning ConnectionTimeoutError - `headers`: response http headers, default is `{}` - `size`: response size - `aborted`: response was aborted or not - `rt`: total request and response time in ms. - `timing`: timing object if timing enable. - `socket`: socket info ## Run test with debug log ```bash NODE_DEBUG=urllib:* npm test ``` ## Mocking Request export from [undici](https://undici.nodejs.org/#/docs/best-practices/mocking-request) ```ts import { strict as assert } from 'assert'; import { MockAgent, setGlobalDispatcher, request } from 'urllib'; const mockAgent = new MockAgent(); setGlobalDispatcher(mockAgent); const mockPool = mockAgent.get('http://localhost:7001'); mockPool.intercept({ path: '/foo', method: 'POST', }).reply(400, { message: 'mock 400 bad request', }); const response = await request('http://localhost:7001/foo', { method: 'POST', dataType: 'json', }); assert.equal(response.status, 400); assert.deepEqual(response.data, { message: 'mock 400 bad request' }); ``` ## Request through a http proxy export from [undici](https://undici.nodejs.org/#/docs/best-practices/proxy) ```ts import { ProxyAgent, request } from 'urllib'; const proxyAgent = new ProxyAgent('http://my.proxy.com:8080'); const response = await request('https://www.npmjs.com/package/urllib', { dispatcher: proxyAgent, }); console.log(response.status, response.headers); ``` ## Benchmarks Fork [undici benchmarks script](https://github.com/fengmk2/undici/blob/urllib-benchmark/benchmarks/benchmark.js) ### Connections 1 | Tests | Samples | Result | Tolerance | Difference with slowest | |---------------------|---------|---------------|-----------|-------------------------| | http - no keepalive | 15 | 6.38 req/sec | ± 2.44 % | - | | http - keepalive | 10 | 6.77 req/sec | ± 2.35 % | + 6.13 % | | urllib2 - request | 45 | 40.13 req/sec | ± 2.88 % | + 528.66 % | | urllib3 - request | 10 | 58.51 req/sec | ± 2.52 % | + 816.64 % | | undici - pipeline | 5 | 59.12 req/sec | ± 2.47 % | + 826.18 % | | undici - fetch | 15 | 60.42 req/sec | ± 3.00 % | + 846.60 % | | undici - dispatch | 5 | 60.58 req/sec | ± 1.39 % | + 848.99 % | | undici - stream | 5 | 61.30 req/sec | ± 1.31 % | + 860.39 % | | undici - request | 5 | 61.74 req/sec | ± 2.03 % | + 867.20 % | ### Connections 50 | Tests | Samples | Result | Tolerance | Difference with slowest | |---------------------|---------|------------------|-----------|-------------------------| | urllib2 - request | 51 | 1465.40 req/sec | ± 14.40 % | - | | undici - fetch | 40 | 3121.10 req/sec | ± 2.82 % | + 112.99 % | | http - no keepalive | 45 | 3355.42 req/sec | ± 2.84 % | + 128.98 % | | http - keepalive | 51 | 5179.55 req/sec | ± 36.61 % | + 253.46 % | | urllib3 - request | 30 | 7045.86 req/sec | ± 2.93 % | + 380.82 % | | undici - pipeline | 50 | 8306.92 req/sec | ± 2.99 % | + 466.87 % | | undici - request | 51 | 9552.59 req/sec | ± 13.13 % | + 551.88 % | | undici - stream | 45 | 12523.45 req/sec | ± 2.97 % | + 754.61 % | | undici - dispatch | 51 | 12970.18 req/sec | ± 3.15 % | + 785.10 % | ## Contributors |[

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