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goldwasher-needle

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node-goldwasher-needle

Plugin for goldwasher to add needle for easy HTTP requests. Uses retry for robustness. Requires goldwasher to work. If you want to run this as a web server/service, have a look at the module hapi-goldwasher.

Installation

npm install goldwasher-needle

Options

Options can be optionally passed in as the second parameter, as an object with a property goldwasher for goldwasher options, a property needle for needle options and a property retry for retry options. For instance:

var options = {
    goldwasher: {
        selector: 'h1'
    },
    needle: {
        follow_max: 20,
        read_timeout: 30000
    },
    retry: {
        retries: 3
    }
}

Have a look at their respective doc pages for goldwasher, needle and retry for options available.

Example

var gn = require('goldwasher-needle');

gn('http://www.google.com', function(error, result) {
  console.log(result);
});

Advanced example

var gn = require('goldwasher-needle');

var url = 'http://www.google.com';
var options = {
  goldwasher: {
    selector: 'h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p'
  }
};

gn(url, options, function(error, result) {
  console.log(result);
});