HTTP — Velocity

httpget(url: string, followRedirects: boolean?) → string yields

GET request. Returns the response body.

lua

local body = httpget("https://api.github.com")
print(body:sub(1, 60))

httppost(url: string, body: string, contentType: string?) → string yields

POST request. Returns the response body.

lua

local resp = httppost(
    "https://httpbin.org/post",
    '{"hello":"world"}',
    "application/json"
)
print(resp)

request(options: table) → table yields

Full request. Options: Url, Method, Headers, Body, Cookies. Response: {Success, StatusCode, StatusMessage, Headers, Body}.

aliaseshttp_request, http.request

lua

local r = request({
    Url     = "https://httpbin.org/headers",
    Method  = "GET",
    Headers = { ["User-Agent"] = "Velocity/1.0" },
})
print(r.StatusCode, r.Body)