Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Make HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS) with custom headers, automatic retries, and graceful error handling. Use when the user need...
Make HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS) with custom headers, automatic retries, and graceful error handling. Use when the user need...
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
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Make HTTP requests using only Node.js built-in modules. Supports all standard methods, arbitrary headers, automatic retries with exponential backoff, and never throws on failure โ always resolves with an inspectable response object.
url (string): Fully qualified URL to request. method (string, optional): HTTP method. Default GET. headers (object, optional): Request headers. body (string | Buffer | object, optional): Request body. Objects are auto-serialized to JSON. maxRetries (number, optional): Retry attempts for transient failures. Default 3. timeout (number, optional): Socket timeout in ms. Default 30000.
Import the client from src/http-client.js: const { HttpClient } = require("./src/http-client"); Create a client instance (optionally set default headers shared across calls): const client = new HttpClient({ defaultHeaders: { Authorization: "Bearer <token>" }, maxRetries: 3, }); Make requests using convenience methods or the generic request(): // GET const resp = await client.get("https://api.example.com/items"); // POST with JSON body const resp = await client.post("https://api.example.com/items", { body: { name: "widget" }, }); // PUT with custom headers const resp = await client.put("https://api.example.com/items/1", { headers: { "X-Request-Id": "abc123" }, body: { name: "updated" }, }); // DELETE const resp = await client.delete("https://api.example.com/items/1"); // Generic form โ any method const resp = await client.request("PATCH", "https://api.example.com/items/1", { body: { qty: 5 }, }); Inspect the response: if (resp.ok) { console.log(resp.body); // parsed JSON or raw string console.log(resp.status); // e.g. 200 console.log(resp.headers); // response headers object } else { console.log(resp.error); // human-readable error (null if HTTP error with status) console.log(resp.status); // HTTP status code or null for network errors }
Every call resolves with an object containing: KeyTypeDescriptionokbooleantrue if status is 2xxstatusnumber | nullHTTP status code; null for network-level errorsheadersobjectResponse headersbodyanyParsed JSON (if content-type is JSON), else stringerrorstring | nullError description on failure; null on success
Retried automatically: Connection errors, timeouts, and HTTP 429 / 5xx responses. Not retried: 4xx errors (except 429) โ returned immediately. Backoff: Exponential with jitter (base 500ms, capped at 30s). Graceful failure: The client never throws. After exhausting retries, it resolves with the last error response so the caller can always inspect resp.ok and resp.error.
All options can be set at the client level (constructor) and overridden per-request: OptionDefaultDescriptiondefaultHeaders{}Headers applied to every requestmaxRetries3Max retry attemptstimeout30000Socket timeout in msbackoffBase500Base delay (ms) for exponential backoffbackoffMax30000Maximum backoff delay cap (ms)
None โ uses only Node.js built-in modules (http, https, url).
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