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Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js
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For browser usage, we recommend Ky by the same people.
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$ npm install got
Got has a dedicated option for handling JSON payload.
Furthermore, the promise exposes a .json<T>() function that returns Promise<T>.
import got from 'got';
const {data} = await got.post('https://httpbin.org/anything', {
json: {
hello: 'world'
}
}).json();
console.log(data);
//=> {"hello": "world"}For advanced JSON usage, check out the parseJson and stringifyJson options.
For more useful tips like this, visit the Tips page.
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| HTTP/2 support | ✔️¹ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️** |
| Browser support | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️* | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Promise API | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Stream API | ✔️ | ✔️ | Node.js only | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Pagination API | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Request cancelation | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| RFC compliant caching | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Cookies (out-of-box) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Follows redirects | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Retries on failure | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Progress events | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️*** | Browser only | ✔️ |
| Handles gzip/deflate | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Advanced timeouts | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Timings | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Errors with metadata | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| JSON mode | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Custom defaults | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Composable | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
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* It's almost API compatible with the browser fetch API.
** Need to switch the protocol manually. Doesn't accept PUSH streams and doesn't reuse HTTP/2 sessions.
*** Currently, only DownloadProgress event is supported, UploadProgress event is not supported.
¹ Requires Node.js 15.10.0 or above.
❇️ Almost-stable feature, but the API may change. Don't hesitate to try it out!
❔ Feature in early stage of development. Very experimental.
Click here to see the install size of the Got dependencies.
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