sindresorhus / electron-main-fetch

Use the browser Fetch API from the main process in Electron

electron-main-fetch

Use the browser Fetch API from the main process in Electron

Install

$ npm install electron-main-fetch

Requires Electron 9 or later.

Usage

const fetch = require('electron-main-fetch');

(async () => {
	const response = await fetch('https://api.ipify.org');
	console.log(await response.text());
	//=> '170.56.15.35'
})();

API

fetch(input, options)

Same options as Fetch

Response object example

{
	type: 'cors',
	url: 'https://api.ipify.org/',
	redirected: false,
	status: 200,
	ok: true,
	statusText: 'OK',
	bodyUsed: false,
	headers: {
		keys: [Function],
		entries: [Function],
		values: [Function],
		get: [Function],
		has: [Function],
		set: [Function],
		append: [Function],
		delete: [Function]
	},
	clone: [Function],
	arrayBuffer: [Function],
	json: [Function],
	text: [Function]
}

Difference between this and Fetch

We don't have direct access to the body stream, so there is no body property. There are some methods that are not useful in Node.js, like formData(), redirect(), etc. Some other methods are not very cross-browser compatible, so they are less common to use.

Missing:

• body
• blob()
• formData()
• error()

A small difference is that our .clone() method is async.

Related

• electron-store - Save and load data like user preferences, app state, cache, etc
• electron-debug - Adds useful debug features to your Electron app
• electron-context-menu - Context menu for your Electron app
• electron-dl - Simplified file downloads for your Electron app
• electron-unhandled - Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections in your Electron app

electron-main-fetch's Issues

Make it work exactly like Fetch

I couldn't make it work exactly the same as Fetch, as the Response object isn't transferred correctly through the Electron IPC. I need to figure out why. Could also maybe use a Proxy to imitate the Response object. Would be really nice if it worked exactly the same. Help welcome :)

Electron issue: electron/electron#9563

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