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:

`javascript
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


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

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

Advanced example


`javascript
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);
});
``