Class: Browser

Browser

new Browser(opts) → {undefined}

A simple class imitating a web-browser. It can be considered as a wrapper around famous 'request' module. Current implementation is very limited . Only get method is implemented. It can be done very easily.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
opts Object

Option object.

Properties
Name Type Description
headers Object

[optional] additional headers used for all requests. default:


var headers = {
'User-Argent' :'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/33.0.1750.152 Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36'
};
proxy String

[optional] proxy parameter that will be passed to request module. default: null
jar tough.CookieJar

[optional] Cookie.jar instance used for for the Browser. default request.jar() It should be an instance of 'tough-cookie' jar;
Source:
Returns:
Type
undefined

Methods

get(opts, cb) → {request}

make a HTTP/GET request.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
opts String | Object

If url a string is given, It is used as URL string. Else, It is passed to request.get with instance specific headers and jar settings.
cb function

callback function. passed directly to request.get.
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Returns:
Type
request