retriever v1.0.0

retriever

Why?

Often in our apps we want to fetch content/resources from other web services the same way a person would by clicking on links in a web browser. We can do this using a standard http.request (node.js core), but many services don't like it when developers make requests for their content programatically (e.g. Facebook wants you to use their API so they know who is making the requests...) Sometimes we want retrieve content anonymously.

What?

Retrieve the content for a given url

How?

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Research

Existing Modules we Learned From

• request: https://www.npmjs.com/package/request (mature but way too many features/dependencies)
• fetch: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fetch (good but no tests)