Wrapper around "Easy".Easy | Easy class with a more nodejs-friendly interface.

This uses an internal "Multi".Multi | Multi instance allowing for asynchronous requests.

Hierarchy

  • EventEmitter
    • Curl

Constructors

  • Parameters

    • OptionalcloneHandle: EasyNativeBinding

      "Easy".Easy | Easy handle that should be used instead of creating a new one.

    Returns Curl

Properties

chunks: Buffer[] = []

Stores current response payload.

This will not store anything in case NoDataStorage flag is enabled

chunksLength: number = 0

Current response length.

Will always be zero in case NoDataStorage flag is enabled

features: CurlFeature = CurlFeature.Empty

Currently enabled features.

See enable and disable

handle: EasyNativeBinding

Internal Easy handle being used

headerChunks: Buffer[] = []

Stores current headers payload.

This will not store anything in case NoDataStorage flag is enabled

headerChunksLength: number = 0

Current headers length.

Will always be zero in case NoDataStorage flag is enabled

isRunning: boolean = false

Whether this instance is running or not (perform() was called).

Make sure to not change their value, otherwise unexpected behavior would happen.

This is marked as protected only with the TSDoc to not cause a breaking change.

readFunctionStream: null | Readable = null
streamContinueNext: boolean = false
streamError: false | Error = false
streamPauseNext: boolean = false
streamReadFunctionCallbacksToClean: [Readable, string, (...args: any[]) => void][] = []
streamReadFunctionPaused: boolean = false
streamReadFunctionShouldEnd: boolean = false
streamReadFunctionShouldPause: boolean = false
streamUserSuppliedProgressFunction:
    | undefined
    | null
    | (
        this: EasyNativeBinding,
        dltotal: number,
        dlnow: number,
        ultotal: number,
        ulnow: number,
    ) => number = null
streamWriteFunctionFirstRun: boolean = true
streamWriteFunctionHighWaterMark: undefined | number
streamWriteFunctionPaused: boolean = false
streamWriteFunctionShouldPause: boolean = false
writeFunctionStream: null | Readable = null
captureRejections: boolean

Value: boolean

Change the default captureRejections option on all new EventEmitter objects.

v13.4.0, v12.16.0

captureRejectionSymbol: typeof captureRejectionSymbol

Value: Symbol.for('nodejs.rejection')

See how to write a custom rejection handler.

v13.4.0, v12.16.0

defaultMaxListeners: number

By default, a maximum of 10 listeners can be registered for any single event. This limit can be changed for individual EventEmitter instances using the emitter.setMaxListeners(n) method. To change the default for allEventEmitter instances, the events.defaultMaxListenersproperty can be used. If this value is not a positive number, a RangeErroris thrown.

Take caution when setting the events.defaultMaxListeners because the change affects allEventEmitter instances, including those created before the change is made. However, calling emitter.setMaxListeners(n) still has precedence over events.defaultMaxListeners.

This is not a hard limit. The EventEmitter instance will allow more listeners to be added but will output a trace warning to stderr indicating that a "possible EventEmitter memory leak" has been detected. For any singleEventEmitter, the emitter.getMaxListeners() and emitter.setMaxListeners()methods can be used to temporarily avoid this warning:

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.setMaxListeners(emitter.getMaxListeners() + 1);
emitter.once('event', () => {
// do stuff
emitter.setMaxListeners(Math.max(emitter.getMaxListeners() - 1, 0));
});

The --trace-warnings command-line flag can be used to display the stack trace for such warnings.

The emitted warning can be inspected with process.on('warning') and will have the additional emitter, type, and count properties, referring to the event emitter instance, the event's name and the number of attached listeners, respectively. Its name property is set to 'MaxListenersExceededWarning'.

v0.11.2

defaultUserAgent: string = ...

This is the default user agent that is going to be used on all Curl instances.

You can overwrite this in a per instance basis, calling curlHandle.setOpt('USERAGENT', 'my-user-agent/1.0'), or by directly changing this property so it affects all newly created Curl instances.

To disable this behavior set this property to null.

errorMonitor: typeof errorMonitor

This symbol shall be used to install a listener for only monitoring 'error'events. Listeners installed using this symbol are called before the regular'error' listeners are called.

Installing a listener using this symbol does not change the behavior once an'error' event is emitted. Therefore, the process will still crash if no regular 'error' listener is installed.

v13.6.0, v12.17.0

getCount: () => number = multiHandle.getCount

Returns the number of handles currently open in the internal "Multi".Multi | Multi handle being used.

Type declaration

    • (): number
    • Returns the number of "Easy".Easy | 'Easy' handles that are currently inside this instance

      Returns number

getVersion: () => string = _Curl.getVersion

Returns libcurl version string.

The string shows which libraries libcurl was built with and their versions, example:

libcurl/7.69.1-DEV OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 WinIDN libssh2/1.9.0_DEV nghttp2/1.40.0
globalCleanup: () => void = _Curl.globalCleanup

Calls curl_global_cleanup()

This is automatically called when the process is exiting.

globalInit: (flags: CurlGlobalInit) => number = _Curl.globalInit

Calls curl_global_init().

For flags see the the enum CurlGlobalInit.

This is automatically called when the addon is loaded, to disable this, set the environment variable NODE_LIBCURL_DISABLE_GLOBAL_INIT_CALL=false

info: CurlInfo = _Curl.info

This is a object with members resembling the CURLINFO_* libcurl constants.

It can be used with "Easy".Easy.getInfo | Easy#getInfo or Curl#getInfo.

See the official documentation of curl_easy_getinfo() for reference.

CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL becomes Curl.info.EFFECTIVE_URL

option: CurlOption = _Curl.option

This is a object with members resembling the CURLOPT_* libcurl constants.

It can be used with "Easy".Easy.setOpt | Easy#setOpt or Curl#setOpt.

See the official documentation of curl_easy_setopt() for reference.

CURLOPT_URL becomes Curl.option.URL

VERSION_NUM: number = _Curl.VERSION_NUM

Integer representing the current libcurl version.

It was built the following way:

<8 bits major number> | <8 bits minor number> | <8 bits patch number>.

Version 7.69.1 is therefore returned as 0x074501 / 476417

Accessors

  • get isOpen(): boolean
  • Whether this instance is closed or not (close() was called).

    Make sure to not change their value, otherwise unexpected behavior would happen.

    Returns boolean

Methods

  • Parameters

    • error: Error
    • event: string
    • ...args: any[]

    Returns void

  • Alias for emitter.on(eventName, listener).

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol
    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

    Returns this

    v0.1.26

  • When uploading a stream (by calling setUploadStream) some event listeners are attached to the stream instance. This will remove them so our callbacks are not called anymore.

    Returns void

  • Close this handle.

    NOTE: After closing the handle, it must not be used anymore. Doing so will throw an error.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_cleanup()

    Returns void

  • This is the default callback passed to setOpt('HEADERFUNCTION', cb).

    Parameters

    • chunk: Buffer
    • size: number
    • nmemb: number

    Returns number

  • This is the default callback passed to setOpt('WRITEFUNCTION', cb).

    Parameters

    • chunk: Buffer
    • size: number
    • nmemb: number

    Returns number

  • This is used by the default callback passed to setOpt('WRITEFUNCTION', cb) when the feature to stream response is enabled.

    Parameters

    • chunk: Buffer
    • size: number
    • nmemb: number

    Returns number

  • Duplicate this handle with all their options. Keep in mind that, by default, this also means all event listeners.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_duphandle()

    Parameters

    • shouldCopyEventListeners: boolean = true

      If you don't want to copy the event listeners, set this to false.

    Returns Curl

  • Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event namedeventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

    Returns true if the event had listeners, false otherwise.

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();

    // First listener
    myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
    console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
    });
    // Second listener
    myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
    console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
    });
    // Third listener
    myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
    const parameters = args.join(', ');
    console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
    });

    console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));

    myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

    // Prints:
    // [
    // [Function: firstListener],
    // [Function: secondListener],
    // [Function: thirdListener]
    // ]
    // Helloooo! first listener
    // event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
    // event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol
    • ...args: any[]

    Returns boolean

    v0.1.26

  • Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners. The values in the array are strings or Symbols.

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

    const myEE = new EventEmitter();
    myEE.on('foo', () => {});
    myEE.on('bar', () => {});

    const sym = Symbol('symbol');
    myEE.on(sym, () => {});

    console.log(myEE.eventNames());
    // Prints: [ 'foo', 'bar', Symbol(symbol) ]

    Returns (string | symbol)[]

    v6.0.0

  • Retrieves some information about the last request made by a handle.

    This overloaded method has never as type for the argument because one of the other overloaded signatures must be used.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_getinfo()

    Parameters

    • infoNameOrId: never

      Info name or integer value. Use Curl.info for predefined constants.

    Returns any

  • Returns information about the finished connection.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_getinfo()

    Parameters

    • info: "CERTINFO"

      Info to retrieve. Use "Curl".Curl.info | Curl.info for predefined constants.

    Returns string[]

  • Returns information about the finished connection.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_getinfo()

    Parameters

    • info:
          | "ACTIVESOCKET"
          | "APPCONNECT_TIME"
          | "APPCONNECT_TIME_T"
          | "CAINFO"
          | "CAPATH"
          | "CONDITION_UNMET"
          | "CONNECT_TIME"
          | "CONNECT_TIME_T"
          | "CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD"
          | "CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T"
          | "CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD"
          | "CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD_T"
          | "CONTENT_TYPE"
          | "COOKIELIST"
          | "EFFECTIVE_METHOD"
          | "EFFECTIVE_URL"
          | "FILETIME"
          | "FILETIME_T"
          | "FTP_ENTRY_PATH"
          | "HEADER_SIZE"
          | "HTTP_CONNECTCODE"
          | "HTTP_VERSION"
          | "HTTPAUTH_AVAIL"
          | "LASTSOCKET"
          | "LOCAL_IP"
          | "LOCAL_PORT"
          | "NAMELOOKUP_TIME"
          | "NAMELOOKUP_TIME_T"
          | "NUM_CONNECTS"
          | "OS_ERRNO"
          | "PRETRANSFER_TIME"
          | "PRETRANSFER_TIME_T"
          | "PRIMARY_IP"
          | "PRIMARY_PORT"
          | "PRIVATE"
          | "PROTOCOL"
          | "PROXY_ERROR"
          | "PROXY_SSL_VERIFYRESULT"
          | "PROXYAUTH_AVAIL"
          | "REDIRECT_COUNT"
          | "REDIRECT_TIME"
          | "REDIRECT_TIME_T"
          | "REDIRECT_URL"
          | "REFERER"
          | "REQUEST_SIZE"
          | "RESPONSE_CODE"
          | "RETRY_AFTER"
          | "RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ"
          | "RTSP_CSEQ_RECV"
          | "RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ"
          | "RTSP_SESSION_ID"
          | "SCHEME"
          | "SIZE_DOWNLOAD"
          | "SIZE_DOWNLOAD_T"
          | "SIZE_UPLOAD"
          | "SIZE_UPLOAD_T"
          | "SPEED_DOWNLOAD"
          | "SPEED_DOWNLOAD_T"
          | "SPEED_UPLOAD"
          | "SPEED_UPLOAD_T"
          | "SSL_ENGINES"
          | "SSL_VERIFYRESULT"
          | "STARTTRANSFER_TIME"
          | "STARTTRANSFER_TIME_T"
          | "TLS_SESSION"
          | "TLS_SSL_PTR"
          | "TOTAL_TIME"
          | "TOTAL_TIME_T"

      Info to retrieve. Use "Curl".Curl.info | Curl.info for predefined constants.

    Returns null | string | number

  • Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to defaultMaxListeners.

    Returns number

    v1.0.0

  • Returns the number of listeners listening for the event named eventName. If listener is provided, it will return how many times the listener is found in the list of the listeners of the event.

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

      The name of the event being listened for

    • Optionallistener: Function

      The event handler function

    Returns number

    v3.2.0

  • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

    server.on('connection', (stream) => {
    console.log('someone connected!');
    });
    console.log(util.inspect(server.listeners('connection')));
    // Prints: [ [Function] ]

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

    Returns Function[]

    v0.1.26

  • Alias for emitter.removeListener().

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol
    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

    Returns this

    v10.0.0

  • Parameters

    • event: "data"
    • listener: (this: Curl, chunk: Buffer, curlInstance: Curl) => void

    Returns this

  • Parameters

    • event: "header"
    • listener: (this: Curl, chunk: Buffer, curlInstance: Curl) => void

    Returns this

  • Parameters

    • event: "error"
    • listener: (this: Curl, error: Error, errorCode: CurlCode, curlInstance: Curl) => void

    Returns this

  • This is emitted if the StreamResponse feature was enabled.

    Parameters

    • event: "stream"
    • listener: (
          this: Curl,
          stream: Readable,
          status: number,
          headers: Buffer | HeaderInfo[],
          curlInstance: Curl,
      ) => void

    Returns this

  • The data paramater passed to the listener callback will be one of the following:

    • Empty Buffer if the feature NoDataStorage flag was enabled
    • Non-Empty Buffer if the feature NoDataParsing flag was enabled
    • Otherwise, it will be a string, with the result of decoding the received data as a UTF8 string. If it's a JSON string for example, you still need to call JSON.parse on it. This library does no extra parsing whatsoever.

    The headers parameter passed to the listener callback will be one of the following:

    • Empty Buffer if the feature NoHeaderStorage flag was enabled
    • Non-Empty Buffer if the feature NoHeaderParsing flag was enabled
    • Otherwise, an array of parsed headers for each request libcurl made (if there were 2 redirects before the last request, the array will have 3 elements, one for each request)

    Parameters

    • event: "end"
    • listener: (
          this: Curl,
          status: number,
          data: string | Buffer,
          headers: Buffer | HeaderInfo[],
          curlInstance: Curl,
      ) => void

    Returns this

  • Parameters

    • event: string
    • listener: Function

    Returns this

  • Adds a one-timelistener function for the event named eventName. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed and then invoked.

    server.once('connection', (stream) => {
    console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
    });

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    By default, event listeners are invoked in the order they are added. Theemitter.prependOnceListener() method can be used as an alternative to add the event listener to the beginning of the listeners array.

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    const myEE = new EventEmitter();
    myEE.once('foo', () => console.log('a'));
    myEE.prependOnceListener('foo', () => console.log('b'));
    myEE.emit('foo');
    // Prints:
    // b
    // a

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

      The name of the event.

    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

      The callback function

    Returns this

    v0.3.0

  • Protected

    Callback called when this handle has finished the request.

    This is called from the internal callback we use with the "Multi".Multi.onMessage | onMessage method of the global "Multi".Multi | Multi handle used by all Curl instances.

    This should not be called in any other way.

    Returns void

  • Protected

    Callback called when an error is thrown on this handle.

    This is called from the internal callback we use with the "Multi".Multi.onMessage | onMessage method of the global "Multi".Multi | Multi handle used by all Curl instances.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Add this instance to the processing queue. This method should be called only one time per request, otherwise it will throw an error.

    Returns Curl

    This basically calls the "Multi".Multi.addHandle | Multi#addHandle method.

  • Adds the listener function to the beginning of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventNameand listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

    server.prependListener('connection', (stream) => {
    console.log('someone connected!');
    });

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

      The name of the event.

    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

      The callback function

    Returns this

    v6.0.0

  • Adds a one-timelistener function for the event named eventName to the beginning of the listeners array. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed, and then invoked.

    server.prependOnceListener('connection', (stream) => {
    console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
    });

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

      The name of the event.

    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

      The callback function

    Returns this

    v6.0.0

  • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    const emitter = new EventEmitter();
    emitter.once('log', () => console.log('log once'));

    // Returns a new Array with a function `onceWrapper` which has a property
    // `listener` which contains the original listener bound above
    const listeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');
    const logFnWrapper = listeners[0];

    // Logs "log once" to the console and does not unbind the `once` event
    logFnWrapper.listener();

    // Logs "log once" to the console and removes the listener
    logFnWrapper();

    emitter.on('log', () => console.log('log persistently'));
    // Will return a new Array with a single function bound by `.on()` above
    const newListeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');

    // Logs "log persistently" twice
    newListeners[0]();
    emitter.emit('log');

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol

    Returns Function[]

    v9.4.0

  • Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

    It is bad practice to remove listeners added elsewhere in the code, particularly when the EventEmitter instance was created by some other component or module (e.g. sockets or file streams).

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    Parameters

    • Optionalevent: string | symbol

    Returns this

    v0.1.26

  • Removes the specified listener from the listener array for the event namedeventName.

    const callback = (stream) => {
    console.log('someone connected!');
    };
    server.on('connection', callback);
    // ...
    server.removeListener('connection', callback);

    removeListener() will remove, at most, one instance of a listener from the listener array. If any single listener has been added multiple times to the listener array for the specified eventName, then removeListener() must be called multiple times to remove each instance.

    Once an event is emitted, all listeners attached to it at the time of emitting are called in order. This implies that anyremoveListener() or removeAllListeners() calls after emitting and before the last listener finishes execution will not remove them fromemit() in progress. Subsequent events behave as expected.

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    class MyEmitter extends EventEmitter {}
    const myEmitter = new MyEmitter();

    const callbackA = () => {
    console.log('A');
    myEmitter.removeListener('event', callbackB);
    };

    const callbackB = () => {
    console.log('B');
    };

    myEmitter.on('event', callbackA);

    myEmitter.on('event', callbackB);

    // callbackA removes listener callbackB but it will still be called.
    // Internal listener array at time of emit [callbackA, callbackB]
    myEmitter.emit('event');
    // Prints:
    // A
    // B

    // callbackB is now removed.
    // Internal listener array [callbackA]
    myEmitter.emit('event');
    // Prints:
    // A

    Because listeners are managed using an internal array, calling this will change the position indices of any listener registered after the listener being removed. This will not impact the order in which listeners are called, but it means that any copies of the listener array as returned by the emitter.listeners() method will need to be recreated.

    When a single function has been added as a handler multiple times for a single event (as in the example below), removeListener() will remove the most recently added instance. In the example the once('ping')listener is removed:

    import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    function pong() {
    console.log('pong');
    }

    ee.on('ping', pong);
    ee.once('ping', pong);
    ee.removeListener('ping', pong);

    ee.emit('ping');
    ee.emit('ping');

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    Parameters

    • eventName: string | symbol
    • listener: (...args: any[]) => void

    Returns this

    v0.1.26

  • Reset this handle options to their defaults.

    This will put the handle in a clean state, as if it was just created.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_reset()

    Returns Curl

  • This is used to reset a few properties to their pre-request state.

    Returns void

  • By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set toInfinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.

    Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

    Parameters

    • n: number

    Returns this

    v0.3.5

  • Sets an option the handle.

    This overloaded method has never as type for the arguments because one of the other overloaded signatures must be used.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • optionIdOrName: never

      Option name or integer value. Use Curl.option for predefined constants.

    • optionValue: never

      The value of the option, value type depends on the option being set.

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: DataCallbackOptions
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              data: Buffer,
              size: number,
              nmemb: number,
          ) => number

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: ProgressCallbackOptions
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              dltotal: number,
              dlnow: number,
              ultotal: number,
              ulnow: number,
          ) => number

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: StringListOptions
    • value: null | string[]

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: BlobOptions
    • value: null | string | Buffer | ArrayBuffer

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION"
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              fileInfo: FileInfo,
              remains: number,
          ) => CurlChunk

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "CHUNK_END_FUNCTION"
    • value: null | (this: EasyNativeBinding) => CurlChunk

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "DEBUGFUNCTION"
    • value: null | (this: EasyNativeBinding, type: CurlInfoDebug, data: Buffer) => 0

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "FNMATCH_FUNCTION"
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              pattern: string,
              value: string,
          ) => CurlFnMatchFunc

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    You can either return a single CurlHstsReadCallbackResult object or an array of CurlHstsReadCallbackResult objects. If returning an array, the callback will only be called once per request. If returning a single object, the callback will be called multiple times until null is returned.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "HSTSWRITEFUNCTION"
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              cacheEntry: CurlHstsCacheEntry,
              cacheCount: CurlHstsCacheCount,
          ) => any

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "PREREQFUNCTION"
    • value:
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              connPrimaryIp: string,
              connLocalIp: string,
              connPrimaryPort: number,
              conLocalPort: number,
          ) => CurlPreReqFunc

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "SEEKFUNCTION"
    • value: null | (this: EasyNativeBinding, offset: number, origin: number) => number

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "TRAILERFUNCTION"
    • value: null | (this: EasyNativeBinding) => false | string[]

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "SHARE"
    • value: null | Share

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "GSSAPI_DELEGATION"
    • value: null | CurlGssApi

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "PROXY_SSL_OPTIONS"
    • value: null | CurlSslOpt

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option: "HSTS_CTRL"
    • value: null | CurlHsts

    Returns this

  • Use "Curl".Curl.option|Curl.option for predefined constants.

    Official libcurl documentation: curl_easy_setopt()

    Parameters

    • option:
          | "CAINFO"
          | "CAPATH"
          | "CERTINFO"
          | "COOKIELIST"
          | "FILETIME"
          | "REFERER"
          | "RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ"
          | "RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ"
          | "RTSP_SESSION_ID"
          | "ABSTRACT_UNIX_SOCKET"
          | "ACCEPT_ENCODING"
          | "ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS"
          | "ADDRESS_SCOPE"
          | "ALTSVC"
          | "ALTSVC_CTRL"
          | "APPEND"
          | "AUTOREFERER"
          | "AWS_SIGV4"
          | "BUFFERSIZE"
          | "CONNECT_ONLY"
          | "CONNECTTIMEOUT"
          | "CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS"
          | "COOKIE"
          | "COOKIEFILE"
          | "COOKIEJAR"
          | "COOKIESESSION"
          | "CRLF"
          | "CRLFILE"
          | "CUSTOMREQUEST"
          | "DEFAULT_PROTOCOL"
          | "DIRLISTONLY"
          | "DISALLOW_USERNAME_IN_URL"
          | "DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT"
          | "DNS_INTERFACE"
          | "DNS_LOCAL_IP4"
          | "DNS_LOCAL_IP6"
          | "DNS_SERVERS"
          | "DNS_SHUFFLE_ADDRESSES"
          | "DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE"
          | "DOH_SSL_VERIFYHOST"
          | "DOH_SSL_VERIFYPEER"
          | "DOH_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS"
          | "DOH_URL"
          | "EGDSOCKET"
          | "EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS"
          | "FAILONERROR"
          | "FOLLOWLOCATION"
          | "FORBID_REUSE"
          | "FRESH_CONNECT"
          | "FTP_ACCOUNT"
          | "FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER"
          | "FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS"
          | "FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP"
          | "FTP_USE_EPRT"
          | "FTP_USE_EPSV"
          | "FTP_USE_PRET"
          | "FTPPORT"
          | "FTPSSLAUTH"
          | "HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT_MS"
          | "HAPROXYPROTOCOL"
          | "HEADER"
          | "HSTS"
          | "HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING"
          | "HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING"
          | "HTTP09_ALLOWED"
          | "HTTPAUTH"
          | "HTTPGET"
          | "HTTPPROXYTUNNEL"
          | "IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH"
          | "INFILESIZE"
          | "INFILESIZE_LARGE"
          | "INTERFACE"
          | "ISSUERCERT"
          | "KEEP_SENDING_ON_ERROR"
          | "KEYPASSWD"
          | "KRBLEVEL"
          | "LOCALPORT"
          | "LOCALPORTRANGE"
          | "LOGIN_OPTIONS"
          | "LOW_SPEED_LIMIT"
          | "LOW_SPEED_TIME"
          | "MAIL_AUTH"
          | "MAIL_FROM"
          | "MAIL_RCPT_ALLLOWFAILS"
          | "MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE"
          | "MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE"
          | "MAXAGE_CONN"
          | "MAXCONNECTS"
          | "MAXFILESIZE"
          | "MAXFILESIZE_LARGE"
          | "MAXLIFETIME_CONN"
          | "MAXREDIRS"
          | "NETRC_FILE"
          | "NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS"
          | "NEW_FILE_PERMS"
          | "NOBODY"
          | "NOPROGRESS"
          | "NOPROXY"
          | "NOSIGNAL"
          | "PASSWORD"
          | "PATH_AS_IS"
          | "PINNEDPUBLICKEY"
          | "PIPEWAIT"
          | "PORT"
          | "POST"
          | "POSTFIELDS"
          | "POSTFIELDSIZE"
          | "POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE"
          | "POSTREDIR"
          | "PRE_PROXY"
          | "PROTOCOLS_STR"
          | "PROXY"
          | "PROXY_CAINFO"
          | "PROXY_CAPATH"
          | "PROXY_CRLFILE"
          | "PROXY_ISSUERCERT"
          | "PROXY_ISSUERCERT_BLOB"
          | "PROXY_KEYPASSWD"
          | "PROXY_PINNEDPUBLICKEY"
          | "PROXY_SERVICE_NAME"
          | "PROXY_SSL_CIPHER_LIST"
          | "PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST"
          | "PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER"
          | "PROXY_SSLCERTTYPE"
          | "PROXY_SSLKEY"
          | "PROXY_SSLKEYTYPE"
          | "PROXY_SSLVERSION"
          | "PROXY_TLS13_CIPHERS"
          | "PROXY_TLSAUTH_PASSWORD"
          | "PROXY_TLSAUTH_TYPE"
          | "PROXY_TLSAUTH_USERNAME"
          | "PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE"
          | "PROXYAUTH"
          | "PROXYPASSWORD"
          | "PROXYPORT"
          | "PROXYUSERNAME"
          | "PROXYUSERPWD"
          | "PUT"
          | "RANDOM_FILE"
          | "RANGE"
          | "READDATA"
          | "REDIR_PROTOCOLS_STR"
          | "REQUEST_TARGET"
          | "RESUME_FROM"
          | "RESUME_FROM_LARGE"
          | "RTSP_STREAM_URI"
          | "RTSP_TRANSPORT"
          | "SASL_AUTHZID"
          | "SASL_IR"
          | "SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT"
          | "SERVICE_NAME"
          | "SOCKS5_AUTH"
          | "SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC"
          | "SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE"
          | "SSH_COMPRESSION"
          | "SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5"
          | "SSH_HOSTKEYDATA"
          | "SSH_KNOWNHOSTS"
          | "SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE"
          | "SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE"
          | "SSL_CIPHER_LIST"
          | "SSL_EC_CURVES"
          | "SSL_ENABLE_ALPN"
          | "SSL_ENABLE_NPN"
          | "SSL_FALSESTART"
          | "SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE"
          | "SSL_VERIFYHOST"
          | "SSL_VERIFYPEER"
          | "SSL_VERIFYSTATUS"
          | "SSLCERT"
          | "SSLCERTTYPE"
          | "SSLENGINE"
          | "SSLENGINE_DEFAULT"
          | "SSLKEY"
          | "SSLKEYTYPE"
          | "SUPPRESS_CONNECT_HEADERS"
          | "TCP_FASTOPEN"
          | "TCP_KEEPALIVE"
          | "TCP_KEEPIDLE"
          | "TCP_KEEPINTVL"
          | "TCP_NODELAY"
          | "TFTP_BLKSIZE"
          | "TFTP_NO_OPTIONS"
          | "TIMEOUT"
          | "TIMEOUT_MS"
          | "TIMEVALUE"
          | "TIMEVALUE_LARGE"
          | "TLS13_CIPHERS"
          | "TLSAUTH_PASSWORD"
          | "TLSAUTH_TYPE"
          | "TLSAUTH_USERNAME"
          | "TRANSFER_ENCODING"
          | "TRANSFERTEXT"
          | "UNIX_SOCKET_PATH"
          | "UNRESTRICTED_AUTH"
          | "UPKEEP_INTERVAL_MS"
          | "UPLOAD"
          | "UPLOAD_BUFFERSIZE"
          | "URL"
          | "USERAGENT"
          | "USERNAME"
          | "USERPWD"
          | "VERBOSE"
          | "WILDCARDMATCH"
          | "XOAUTH2_BEARER"
    • value: null | string | number | boolean

    Returns this

  • The option XFERINFOFUNCTION was introduced in curl version 7.32.0, versions older than that should use PROGRESSFUNCTION. If you don't want to mess with version numbers you can use this method, instead of directly calling Curl#setOpt.

    NOPROGRESS should be set to false to make this function actually get called.

    Parameters

    • cb:
          | null
          | (
              dltotal: number,
              dlnow: number,
              ultotal: number,
              ulnow: number,
          ) => number

    Returns Curl

  • This sets the callback to be used as the progress function when using any of the stream features.

    This is needed because when this Curl instance is enabled to use streams for upload/download, it needs to set the libcurl progress function option to an internal function.

    If you are using any of the streams features, do not overwrite the progress callback to something else, be it using setOpt or setProgressCallback, as this would cause undefined behavior.

    If are using this callback, there is no need to set the NOPROGRESS option to false (as you normally would).

    Parameters

    • cb:
          | undefined
          | null
          | (
              this: EasyNativeBinding,
              dltotal: number,
              dlnow: number,
              ultotal: number,
              ulnow: number,
          ) => number

    Returns Curl

  • Set the param to null to use the Node.js default value.

    Parameters

    • highWaterMark: null | number

      This will passed directly to the Readable stream created to be returned as the response'

    Returns Curl

    Only useful when the StreamResponse feature flag is enabled.

  • This will set an internal READFUNCTION callback that will read all the data from this stream.

    One usage for that is to upload data directly from streams. Example:

     const curl = new Curl()
    curl.setOpt('URL', 'https://some-domain/upload')
    curl.setOpt('UPLOAD', true)
    // so we do not need to set the content length
    curl.setOpt('HTTPHEADER', ['Transfer-Encoding: chunked'])

    const filePath = './test.zip'
    const stream = fs.createReadStream(filePath)
    curl.setUploadStream(stream)

    curl.setStreamProgressCallback(() => {
    // this will use the default progress callback from libcurl
    return CurlProgressFunc.Continue
    })

    curl.on('end', (statusCode, data) => {
    console.log('\n'.repeat(5))
    // data length should be 0, as it was sent using the response stream
    console.log(
    `curl - end - status: ${statusCode} - data length: ${data.length}`,
    )
    curl.close()
    })
    curl.on('error', (error, errorCode) => {
    console.log('\n'.repeat(5))
    console.error('curl - error: ', error, errorCode)
    curl.close()
    })
    curl.perform()

    Multiple calls with the same stream that was previously set has no effect.

    Setting this to null will remove the READFUNCTION callback and disable this behavior.

    Parameters

    • stream: null | Readable

    Returns Curl

    This option is reset after each request, so if you want to upload the same data again using the same Curl instance, you will need to provide a new stream.

    Make sure your libcurl version is greater than or equal 7.69.1. Versions older than that one are not reliable for streams usage.

  • The internal function passed to PROGRESSFUNCTION (XFERINFOFUNCTION on most recent libcurl versions) when using any of the stream features.

    Parameters

    • dltotal: number
    • dlnow: number
    • ultotal: number
    • ulnow: number

    Returns number

  • Experimental

    Listens once to the abort event on the provided signal.

    Listening to the abort event on abort signals is unsafe and may lead to resource leaks since another third party with the signal can call e.stopImmediatePropagation(). Unfortunately Node.js cannot change this since it would violate the web standard. Additionally, the original API makes it easy to forget to remove listeners.

    This API allows safely using AbortSignals in Node.js APIs by solving these two issues by listening to the event such that stopImmediatePropagation does not prevent the listener from running.

    Returns a disposable so that it may be unsubscribed from more easily.

    import { addAbortListener } from 'node:events';

    function example(signal) {
    let disposable;
    try {
    signal.addEventListener('abort', (e) => e.stopImmediatePropagation());
    disposable = addAbortListener(signal, (e) => {
    // Do something when signal is aborted.
    });
    } finally {
    disposable?.[Symbol.dispose]();
    }
    }

    Parameters

    • signal: AbortSignal
    • resource: (event: Event) => void

    Returns Disposable

    Disposable that removes the abort listener.

    v20.5.0

  • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

    For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .listeners on the emitter.

    For EventTargets this is the only way to get the event listeners for the event target. This is useful for debugging and diagnostic purposes.

    import { getEventListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

    {
    const ee = new EventEmitter();
    const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
    ee.on('foo', listener);
    console.log(getEventListeners(ee, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
    }
    {
    const et = new EventTarget();
    const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
    et.addEventListener('foo', listener);
    console.log(getEventListeners(et, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
    }

    Parameters

    • emitter: EventEmitter | _DOMEventTarget
    • name: string | symbol

    Returns Function[]

    v15.2.0, v14.17.0

  • Returns the currently set max amount of listeners.

    For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .getMaxListeners on the emitter.

    For EventTargets this is the only way to get the max event listeners for the event target. If the number of event handlers on a single EventTarget exceeds the max set, the EventTarget will print a warning.

    import { getMaxListeners, setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

    {
    const ee = new EventEmitter();
    console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 10
    setMaxListeners(11, ee);
    console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 11
    }
    {
    const et = new EventTarget();
    console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 10
    setMaxListeners(11, et);
    console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 11
    }

    Parameters

    • emitter: EventEmitter | _DOMEventTarget

    Returns number

    v19.9.0

  • Returns an object with a representation of the current libcurl version and their features/protocols.

    This is basically curl_version_info()

    Returns CurlVersionInfoNativeBindingObject

  • Returns a string that looks like the one returned by

    curl -V
    

    Example:

    Version: libcurl/7.69.1-DEV OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 WinIDN libssh2/1.9.0_DEV nghttp2/1.40.0
    Protocols: dict, file, ftp, ftps, gopher, http, https, imap, imaps, ldap, ldaps, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, scp, sftp, smb, smbs, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp
    Features: AsynchDNS, IDN, IPv6, Largefile, SSPI, Kerberos, SPNEGO, NTLM, SSL, libz, HTTP2, HTTPS-proxy

    Returns string

  • Useful if you want to check if the current libcurl version is greater or equal than another one.

    Parameters

    • x: number

      major

    • y: number

      minor

    • z: number = 0

      patch

    Returns boolean

  • A class method that returns the number of listeners for the given eventNameregistered on the given emitter.

    import { EventEmitter, listenerCount } from 'node:events';

    const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
    myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
    myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
    console.log(listenerCount(myEmitter, 'event'));
    // Prints: 2

    Parameters

    • emitter: EventEmitter

      The emitter to query

    • eventName: string | symbol

      The event name

    Returns number

    v0.9.12

    Since v3.2.0 - Use listenerCount instead.

  • import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    import process from 'node:process';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    // Emit later on
    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
    ee.emit('foo', 42);
    });

    for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo')) {
    // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
    // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
    // if concurrent execution is required.
    console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
    }
    // Unreachable here

    Returns an AsyncIterator that iterates eventName events. It will throw if the EventEmitter emits 'error'. It removes all listeners when exiting the loop. The value returned by each iteration is an array composed of the emitted event arguments.

    An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting on events:

    import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    import process from 'node:process';

    const ac = new AbortController();

    (async () => {
    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    // Emit later on
    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
    ee.emit('foo', 42);
    });

    for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { signal: ac.signal })) {
    // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
    // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
    // if concurrent execution is required.
    console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
    }
    // Unreachable here
    })();

    process.nextTick(() => ac.abort());

    Parameters

    • emitter: EventEmitter
    • eventName: string

      The name of the event being listened for

    • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

    Returns AsyncIterableIterator<any>

    that iterates eventName events emitted by the emitter

    v13.6.0, v12.16.0

  • Creates a Promise that is fulfilled when the EventEmitter emits the given event or that is rejected if the EventEmitter emits 'error' while waiting. The Promise will resolve with an array of all the arguments emitted to the given event.

    This method is intentionally generic and works with the web platform EventTarget interface, which has no special'error' event semantics and does not listen to the 'error' event.

    import { once, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    import process from 'node:process';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('myevent', 42);
    });

    const [value] = await once(ee, 'myevent');
    console.log(value);

    const err = new Error('kaboom');
    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('error', err);
    });

    try {
    await once(ee, 'myevent');
    } catch (err) {
    console.error('error happened', err);
    }

    The special handling of the 'error' event is only used when events.once()is used to wait for another event. If events.once() is used to wait for the 'error' event itself, then it is treated as any other kind of event without special handling:

    import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    once(ee, 'error')
    .then(([err]) => console.log('ok', err.message))
    .catch((err) => console.error('error', err.message));

    ee.emit('error', new Error('boom'));

    // Prints: ok boom

    An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting for the event:

    import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();
    const ac = new AbortController();

    async function foo(emitter, event, signal) {
    try {
    await once(emitter, event, { signal });
    console.log('event emitted!');
    } catch (error) {
    if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
    console.error('Waiting for the event was canceled!');
    } else {
    console.error('There was an error', error.message);
    }
    }
    }

    foo(ee, 'foo', ac.signal);
    ac.abort(); // Abort waiting for the event
    ee.emit('foo'); // Prints: Waiting for the event was canceled!

    Parameters

    • emitter: _NodeEventTarget
    • eventName: string | symbol
    • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

    Returns Promise<any[]>

    v11.13.0, v10.16.0

  • Creates a Promise that is fulfilled when the EventEmitter emits the given event or that is rejected if the EventEmitter emits 'error' while waiting. The Promise will resolve with an array of all the arguments emitted to the given event.

    This method is intentionally generic and works with the web platform EventTarget interface, which has no special'error' event semantics and does not listen to the 'error' event.

    import { once, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
    import process from 'node:process';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('myevent', 42);
    });

    const [value] = await once(ee, 'myevent');
    console.log(value);

    const err = new Error('kaboom');
    process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('error', err);
    });

    try {
    await once(ee, 'myevent');
    } catch (err) {
    console.error('error happened', err);
    }

    The special handling of the 'error' event is only used when events.once()is used to wait for another event. If events.once() is used to wait for the 'error' event itself, then it is treated as any other kind of event without special handling:

    import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();

    once(ee, 'error')
    .then(([err]) => console.log('ok', err.message))
    .catch((err) => console.error('error', err.message));

    ee.emit('error', new Error('boom'));

    // Prints: ok boom

    An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting for the event:

    import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

    const ee = new EventEmitter();
    const ac = new AbortController();

    async function foo(emitter, event, signal) {
    try {
    await once(emitter, event, { signal });
    console.log('event emitted!');
    } catch (error) {
    if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
    console.error('Waiting for the event was canceled!');
    } else {
    console.error('There was an error', error.message);
    }
    }
    }

    foo(ee, 'foo', ac.signal);
    ac.abort(); // Abort waiting for the event
    ee.emit('foo'); // Prints: Waiting for the event was canceled!

    Parameters

    • emitter: _DOMEventTarget
    • eventName: string
    • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

    Returns Promise<any[]>

    v11.13.0, v10.16.0

  • import { setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

    const target = new EventTarget();
    const emitter = new EventEmitter();

    setMaxListeners(5, target, emitter);

    Parameters

    • Optionaln: number

      A non-negative number. The maximum number of listeners per EventTarget event.

    • ...eventTargets: (EventEmitter | _DOMEventTarget)[]

    Returns void

    v15.4.0