{
  "name": "request",
  "description": "Simplified HTTP request client.",
  "tags": [
    "http",
    "simple",
    "util",
    "utility"
  ],
  "version": "2.30.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Mikeal Rogers",
    "email": "mikeal.rogers@gmail.com"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "http://github.com/mikeal/request.git"
  },
  "bugs": {
    "url": "http://github.com/mikeal/request/issues"
  },
  "engines": [
    "node >= 0.8.0"
  ],
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "qs": "~0.6.0",
    "json-stringify-safe": "~5.0.0",
    "forever-agent": "~0.5.0",
    "node-uuid": "~1.4.0",
    "mime": "~1.2.9",
    "tough-cookie": "~0.9.15",
    "form-data": "~0.1.0",
    "tunnel-agent": "~0.3.0",
    "http-signature": "~0.10.0",
    "oauth-sign": "~0.3.0",
    "hawk": "~1.0.0",
    "aws-sign2": "~0.5.0"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
    "tough-cookie": "~0.9.15",
    "form-data": "~0.1.0",
    "tunnel-agent": "~0.3.0",
    "http-signature": "~0.10.0",
    "oauth-sign": "~0.3.0",
    "hawk": "~1.0.0",
    "aws-sign2": "~0.5.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "node tests/run.js"
  },
  "readme": "# Request -- Simplified HTTP client\n\n[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/request.png)](https://nodei.co/npm/request/)\n\n## Super simple to use\n\nRequest is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.\n\n```javascript\nvar request = require('request');\nrequest('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {\n  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {\n    console.log(body) // Print the google web page.\n  }\n})\n```\n\n## Streaming\n\nYou can stream any response to a file stream.\n\n```javascript\nrequest('http://google.com/doodle.png').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('doodle.png'))\n```\n\nYou can also stream a file to a PUT or POST request. This method will also check the file extension against a mapping of file extensions to content-types (in this case `application/json`) and use the proper `content-type` in the PUT request (if the headers don’t already provide one).\n\n```javascript\nfs.createReadStream('file.json').pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/obj.json'))\n```\n\nRequest can also `pipe` to itself. When doing so, `content-type` and `content-length` are preserved in the PUT headers.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.get('http://google.com/img.png').pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/img.png'))\n```\n\nNow let’s get fancy.\n\n```javascript\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n  if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n    if (req.method === 'PUT') {\n      req.pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/doodle.png'))\n    } else if (req.method === 'GET' || req.method === 'HEAD') {\n      request.get('http://mysite.com/doodle.png').pipe(resp)\n    }\n  }\n})\n```\n\nYou can also `pipe()` from `http.ServerRequest` instances, as well as to `http.ServerResponse` instances. The HTTP method, headers, and entity-body data will be sent. Which means that, if you don't really care about security, you can do:\n\n```javascript\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n  if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n    var x = request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')\n    req.pipe(x)\n    x.pipe(resp)\n  }\n})\n```\n\nAnd since `pipe()` returns the destination stream in ≥ Node 0.5.x you can do one line proxying. :)\n\n```javascript\nreq.pipe(request('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')).pipe(resp)\n```\n\nAlso, none of this new functionality conflicts with requests previous features, it just expands them.\n\n```javascript\nvar r = request.defaults({'proxy':'http://localproxy.com'})\n\nhttp.createServer(function (req, resp) {\n  if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {\n    r.get('http://google.com/doodle.png').pipe(resp)\n  }\n})\n```\n\nYou can still use intermediate proxies, the requests will still follow HTTP forwards, etc.\n\n## Forms\n\n`request` supports `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` and `multipart/form-data` form uploads. For `multipart/related` refer to the `multipart` API.\n\nURL-encoded forms are simple.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.post('http://service.com/upload', {form:{key:'value'}})\n// or\nrequest.post('http://service.com/upload').form({key:'value'})\n```\n\nFor `multipart/form-data` we use the [form-data](https://github.com/felixge/node-form-data) library by [@felixge](https://github.com/felixge). You don’t need to worry about piping the form object or setting the headers, `request` will handle that for you.\n\n```javascript\nvar r = request.post('http://service.com/upload')\nvar form = r.form()\nform.append('my_field', 'my_value')\nform.append('my_buffer', new Buffer([1, 2, 3]))\nform.append('my_file', fs.createReadStream(path.join(__dirname, 'doodle.png'))\nform.append('remote_file', request('http://google.com/doodle.png'))\n```\n\n## HTTP Authentication\n\n```javascript\nrequest.get('http://some.server.com/').auth('username', 'password', false);\n// or\nrequest.get('http://some.server.com/', {\n  'auth': {\n    'user': 'username',\n    'pass': 'password',\n    'sendImmediately': false\n  }\n});\n```\n\nIf passed as an option, `auth` should be a hash containing values `user` || `username`, `password` || `pass`, and `sendImmediately` (optional).  The method form takes parameters `auth(username, password, sendImmediately)`.\n\n`sendImmediately` defaults to `true`, which causes a basic authentication header to be sent.  If `sendImmediately` is `false`, then `request` will retry with a proper authentication header after receiving a `401` response from the server (which must contain a `WWW-Authenticate` header indicating the required authentication method).\n\nDigest authentication is supported, but it only works with `sendImmediately` set to `false`; otherwise `request` will send basic authentication on the initial request, which will probably cause the request to fail.\n\n## OAuth Signing\n\n```javascript\n// Twitter OAuth\nvar qs = require('querystring')\n  , oauth =\n    { callback: 'http://mysite.com/callback/'\n    , consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY\n    , consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET\n    }\n  , url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token'\n  ;\nrequest.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) {\n  // Ideally, you would take the body in the response\n  // and construct a URL that a user clicks on (like a sign in button).\n  // The verifier is only available in the response after a user has\n  // verified with twitter that they are authorizing your app.\n  var access_token = qs.parse(body)\n    , oauth =\n      { consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY\n      , consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET\n      , token: access_token.oauth_token\n      , verifier: access_token.oauth_verifier\n      }\n    , url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token'\n    ;\n  request.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) {\n    var perm_token = qs.parse(body)\n      , oauth =\n        { consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY\n        , consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET\n        , token: perm_token.oauth_token\n        , token_secret: perm_token.oauth_token_secret\n        }\n      , url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?'\n      , params =\n        { screen_name: perm_token.screen_name\n        , user_id: perm_token.user_id\n        }\n      ;\n    url += qs.stringify(params)\n    request.get({url:url, oauth:oauth, json:true}, function (e, r, user) {\n      console.log(user)\n    })\n  })\n})\n```\n\n### Custom HTTP Headers\n\nHTTP Headers, such as `User-Agent`, can be set in the `options` object.\nIn the example below, we call the github API to find out the number\nof stars and forks for the request repository. This requires a\ncustom `User-Agent` header as well as https.\n\n```\nvar request = require('request');\n\nvar options = {\n\turl: 'https://api.github.com/repos/mikeal/request',\n\theaders: {\n\t\t'User-Agent': 'request'\n\t}\n};\n\nfunction callback(error, response, body) {\n\tif (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {\n\t\tvar info = JSON.parse(body);\n\t\tconsole.log(info.stargazers_count + \" Stars\");\n\t\tconsole.log(info.forks_count + \" Forks\");\n\t}\n}\n\nrequest(options, callback);\n```\n\n### request(options, callback)\n\nThe first argument can be either a `url` or an `options` object. The only required option is `uri`; all others are optional.\n\n* `uri` || `url` - fully qualified uri or a parsed url object from `url.parse()`\n* `qs` - object containing querystring values to be appended to the `uri`\n* `method` - http method (default: `\"GET\"`)\n* `headers` - http headers (default: `{}`)\n* `body` - entity body for PATCH, POST and PUT requests. Must be a `Buffer` or `String`.\n* `form` - when passed an object, this sets `body` to a querystring representation of value, and adds `Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8` header. When passed no options, a `FormData` instance is returned (and is piped to request).\n* `auth` - A hash containing values `user` || `username`, `password` || `pass`, and `sendImmediately` (optional).  See documentation above.\n* `json` - sets `body` but to JSON representation of value and adds `Content-type: application/json` header.  Additionally, parses the response body as JSON.\n* `multipart` - (experimental) array of objects which contains their own headers and `body` attribute. Sends `multipart/related` request. See example below.\n* `followRedirect` - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects (default: `true`)\n* `followAllRedirects` - follow non-GET HTTP 3xx responses as redirects (default: `false`)\n* `maxRedirects` - the maximum number of redirects to follow (default: `10`)\n* `encoding` - Encoding to be used on `setEncoding` of response data. If `null`, the `body` is returned as a `Buffer`.\n* `pool` - A hash object containing the agents for these requests. If omitted, the request will use the global pool (which is set to node's default `maxSockets`)\n* `pool.maxSockets` - Integer containing the maximum amount of sockets in the pool.\n* `timeout` - Integer containing the number of milliseconds to wait for a request to respond before aborting the request\n* `proxy` - An HTTP proxy to be used. Supports proxy Auth with Basic Auth, identical to support for the `url` parameter (by embedding the auth info in the `uri`)\n* `oauth` - Options for OAuth HMAC-SHA1 signing. See documentation above.\n* `hawk` - Options for [Hawk signing](https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk). The `credentials` key must contain the necessary signing info, [see hawk docs for details](https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk#usage-example).\n* `strictSSL` - If `true`, requires SSL certificates be valid. **Note:** to use your own certificate authority, you need to specify an agent that was created with that CA as an option.\n* `jar` - If `true`, remember cookies for future use (or define your custom cookie jar; see examples section)\n* `aws` - `object` containing AWS signing information. Should have the properties `key`, `secret`. Also requires the property `bucket`, unless you’re specifying your `bucket` as part of the path, or the request doesn’t use a bucket (i.e. GET Services)\n* `httpSignature` - Options for the [HTTP Signature Scheme](https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature/blob/master/http_signing.md) using [Joyent's library](https://github.com/joyent/node-http-signature). The `keyId` and `key` properties must be specified. See the docs for other options.\n* `localAddress` - Local interface to bind for network connections.\n\n\nThe callback argument gets 3 arguments: \n\n1. An `error` when applicable (usually from the `http.Client` option, not the `http.ClientRequest` object)\n2. An `http.ClientResponse` object\n3. The third is the `response` body (`String` or `Buffer`)\n\n## Convenience methods\n\nThere are also shorthand methods for different HTTP METHODs and some other conveniences.\n\n### request.defaults(options)\n\nThis method returns a wrapper around the normal request API that defaults to whatever options you pass in to it.\n\n### request.put\n\nSame as `request()`, but defaults to `method: \"PUT\"`.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.put(url)\n```\n\n### request.patch\n\nSame as `request()`, but defaults to `method: \"PATCH\"`.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.patch(url)\n```\n\n### request.post\n\nSame as `request()`, but defaults to `method: \"POST\"`.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.post(url)\n```\n\n### request.head\n\nSame as request() but defaults to `method: \"HEAD\"`.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.head(url)\n```\n\n### request.del\n\nSame as `request()`, but defaults to `method: \"DELETE\"`.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.del(url)\n```\n\n### request.get\n\nSame as `request()` (for uniformity).\n\n```javascript\nrequest.get(url)\n```\n### request.cookie\n\nFunction that creates a new cookie.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.cookie('cookie_string_here')\n```\n### request.jar\n\nFunction that creates a new cookie jar.\n\n```javascript\nrequest.jar()\n```\n\n\n## Examples:\n\n```javascript\n  var request = require('request')\n    , rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*100000000).toString()\n    ;\n  request(\n    { method: 'PUT'\n    , uri: 'http://mikeal.iriscouch.com/testjs/' + rand\n    , multipart:\n      [ { 'content-type': 'application/json'\n        ,  body: JSON.stringify({foo: 'bar', _attachments: {'message.txt': {follows: true, length: 18, 'content_type': 'text/plain' }}})\n        }\n      , { body: 'I am an attachment' }\n      ]\n    }\n  , function (error, response, body) {\n      if(response.statusCode == 201){\n        console.log('document saved as: http://mikeal.iriscouch.com/testjs/'+ rand)\n      } else {\n        console.log('error: '+ response.statusCode)\n        console.log(body)\n      }\n    }\n  )\n```\n\nCookies are disabled by default (else, they would be used in subsequent requests). To enable cookies, set `jar` to `true` (either in `defaults` or `options`).\n\n```javascript\nvar request = request.defaults({jar: true})\nrequest('http://www.google.com', function () {\n  request('http://images.google.com')\n})\n```\n\nTo use a custom cookie jar (instead `request`’s global cookie jar), set `jar` to an instance of `request.jar()` (either in `defaults` or `options`)\n\n```javascript\nvar j = request.jar()\nvar request = request.defaults({jar:j})\nrequest('http://www.google.com', function () {\n  request('http://images.google.com')\n})\n```\nOR\n\n```javascript\nvar j = request.jar()\nvar cookie = request.cookie('your_cookie_here')\nj.add(cookie)\nrequest({url: 'http://www.google.com', jar: j}, function () {\n  request('http://images.google.com')\n})\n```\n",
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