finer

Tiny HTTP-client without dependencies. Stupid, simple, no fancy stuff.

features

• returns a Promise if no callback specified
• supports HTTPS
• supports options
• supports post requests with x-www-form-urlencoded data
• does not support redirect
• default timeout is 60 seconds, unless other specified

install

npm i finer

callback

const finer = require('finer');

finer('http://example.com', (err, res) => {
  if (err) console.log(err);
  console.log(res.statusCode); // 200
});

promise

const finer = require('finer');

finer('http://example.com')
  .then(res => console.log(res.statusCode)) // 200
  .catch(e => console.log(e));

async/await

const finer = require('finer');

(async () => {
    try {
        const { statusCode } = await finer('http://example.com');
        console.log(statusCode); // 200
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e);
    }
})();

POST

For POST use option { method: 'POST' }

const finer = require('finer');

let opts = {
    url: 'http://httpbin.org/post',
    method: 'POST'
  };

(async () => {
    try {
        const { body } = await finer(opts);
        console.log(JSON.parse(body).url); // http://httpbin.org/post
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e);
    }
})();

x-www-form-urlencoded

To make request with x-www-form-urlencoded data use opts.form with { method: 'POST' }

const finer = require('finer');

let opts = {
    url: 'http://somewebsi.te/submit',
    method: 'POST',
    form: {
    	user: 'username',
        passwd: 'password'
    }
  };

(async () => {
    try {
        const { body } = await finer(opts);
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e);
    }
})();

timeout

Default value is 60 seconds. For custom timeout use option { timeout: value }

const finer = require('finer');

let opts = {
    url: 'http://no-response.whatsoever', // Server not responding
    timeout: 5000
  };

finer(opts)
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(e => console.log(e)); // Request timed out: http://no-response.whatsoever