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--- > The ultra-lightweight Node.js HTTP client [Full documentation](https://ethanent.github.io/phin/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/ethanent/phin) | [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/phin) ## Simple Usage ```javascript const p = require('phin') p('https://ethanent.me', (err, res) => { if (!err) console.log(res.body) }) ``` ## Install ``` npm install phin ``` ## Why phin? phin is **trusted** by some really important projects. The hundreds of contributors at [Less](https://github.com/less/less.js), for example, depend on phin as part of their development process. Also, phin is super **lightweight**. Like **99.8% smaller than request** lightweight. To compare to other libraries, see [phin vs. the Competition](https://github.com/ethanent/phin/blob/master/README.md#phin-vs-the-competition). phin became 33% lighter with release 2.7.0!

phin became 33% lighter with release 2.7.0!

## Quick Demos Simple POST: ```javascript p({ url: 'https://ethanent.me', method: 'POST', data: { hey: 'hi' } }) ``` Promisified: ```javascript const p = require('phin').promisified ``` ```javascript ;(async () => { const res = await p({ url: 'https://ethanent.me' }) console.log(res.body) })() ``` Simple parsing of JSON: ```javascript // (In async function in this case.) const res = await p({ url: 'https://ethanent.me/name', parse: 'json' }) console.log(res.body.first) ``` ## Documentation See [the phin documentation](https://ethanent.github.io/phin/). `phin` has [`util.promisify`](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v8.x/docs/api/util.html#util_util_promisify_original) support. The promisified library can also be accessed with `require('phin').promisified`! ## phin vs. the Competition Request is over 6MB in size. phin is just 25KB in size.

Request is over 6MB in size. phin is just 25KB in size.

phin is super lightweight, and *it's getting lighter all the time*. It contains all of the common HTTP client features included in competing libraries! Package | Size (KB) | Dependencies
(Tree Count) | Size Comparison
(vs. phin) --- | --- | --- | --- request | 4,446 | [53](http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/request) | 444.6x superagent | 1,235 | [24](http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/superagent) | 123.5x got | 664 | [44](http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/got) | 66.4x snekfetch | 107 | [0](http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/snekfetch) | 10.7x phin | 10 | [0](http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/phin) | 1x

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