lua-reqwest

A simple Lua HTTP client based on reqwest.

Installation

# install from local source
luarocks make reqwest-0.1.0-1.rockspec
# install from luarocks
luarocks install lua-reqwest

APIS

reqwest.request(url, options)

• url (string): The URL to request.
• options (table): The request options.
  • method (string): The request method, default is GET.
  • headers (table): The request headers.
  • body (string): The request body.
  • version (number): The HTTP version, default is 1.1.
  • timeout (number): The request timeout in seconds, default is 30.
  • connect_timeout (number): The request connect timeout in seconds.
  • tls_verify (boolean): Verify the TLS certificate, default is true.

Example

local reqwest = require("reqwest")
local cjson = require("cjson")

local res, err = reqwest.request("https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace", { headers = { ["User-Agent"] = "reqwest" }, version = 2 })
print("err: " .. tostring(err))
print("res: " .. cjson.encode(res))

╰─$ luajit test.lua                                      
err: nil
res: {"status":200,"body":"fl=464f193\nh=cloudflare.com\nip=1.1.1.1\nts=1725552998.6\nvisit_scheme=https\nuag=reqwest\ncolo=SJC\nsliver=none\nhttp=http\/2\nloc=US\ntls=TLSv1.3\nsni=plaintext\nwarp=off\ngateway=off\nrbi=off\nkex=X25519\n","headers":{"date":"Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:16:38 GMT","cf-ray":"8be786613aeacf2e-SJC","content-type":"text\/plain","x-content-type-options":"nosniff","server":"cloudflare","cache-control":"no-cache","x-frame-options":"DENY","access-control-allow-origin":"*","expires":"Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT"}}