insomnia-node-libcurl/examples/simple-request.js

Node bindings for libcurl. Based on the work from node-curl.

/**
 * @author Jonathan Cardoso Machado
 * @license MIT
 * @copyright 2015, Jonathan Cardoso Machado
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/**
 * Example showing how one could do a simple request using the Curl wrapper.
 */
var Curl = require('../lib/Curl'),
  curl = new Curl(),
  url = process.argv[2] || 'http://www.google.com';

//you can use a string as option
curl.setOpt('URL', url);
//or use an already defined constant
curl.setOpt(Curl.option.CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl.setOpt(Curl.option.FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
// Uncomment to show more debug information.
//curl.setOpt( Curl.option.VERBOSE, true );
//keep in mind that if you use an invalid option, a TypeError exception will be thrown

curl.on('end', function(statusCode, body, headers) {
  console.info('Status Code: ', statusCode);
  console.info('Headers: ', headers);
  console.info('Body length: ', body.length);

  this.close();
});

curl.on('error', function(err, curlErrCode) {
  console.error('Err: ', err);
  console.error('Code: ', curlErrCode);
  this.close();
});

curl.perform();