feat: miniget now accepts a URL object as the first parameter

README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ miniget('http://api.mywebsite.com/v1/messages.json')
 
 ### miniget(url, [options])
 
-Makes a GET request. `options` can have any properties from the [`http.request()` function](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback), in addition to
+Makes a GET request. `url` can be a string or a `URL` object. `options` can have any properties from the [`http.request()` function](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback), in addition to
 
 * `maxRedirects` - Default is `10`.
 * `maxRetries` - Number of times to retry the request if there is a 500 or connection error. Default is `2`.

src/index.ts

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Miniget.defaultOptions = {
   backoff: { inc: 100, max: 10000 },
 };
 
-function Miniget(url: string, options: Miniget.Options = {}): Miniget.Stream {
+function Miniget(url: string | URL, options: Miniget.Options = {}): Miniget.Stream {
   const opts: Miniget.DefaultOptions = Object.assign({}, Miniget.defaultOptions, options);
   const stream = new PassThrough({ highWaterMark: opts.highWaterMark }) as Miniget.Stream;
   stream.destroyed = stream.aborted = false;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ function Miniget(url: string, options: Miniget.Options = {}): Miniget.Stream {
   const doDownload = () => {
     let parsed: RequestOptions = {}, httpLib;
     try {
-      let urlObj = new URL(url);
+      let urlObj = typeof url === 'string' ? new URL(url) : url;
       parsed = Object.assign({}, {
         host: urlObj.host,
         hostname: urlObj.hostname,

test/request-test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import zlib from 'zlib';
 import assert from 'assert';
 import { Transform } from 'stream';
 import { IncomingMessage, ClientRequest, RequestOptions } from 'http';
+import { URL } from 'url';
 
 import miniget from '../dist';
 
@@ -155,6 +156,17 @@ describe('Make a request', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('with URL object passed', () => {
+    it('Creates request and gets correct response', async() => {
+      const scope = nock('http://webby.com')
+        .get('/pathos')
+        .replyWithFile(200, __filename);
+      let body = await miniget(new URL('http://webby.com/pathos')).text();
+      scope.done();
+      assert.ok(body.length > 100);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('with an incorrect URL', () => {
     it('Emits error', done => {
       miniget('file:///path/to/file/').on('error', err => {