newsbot-api/services/httpClient.go

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Go

package services
import (
"net/http"
"log"
"io/ioutil"
)
// This will use the net/http client reach out to a site and collect the content.
func getHttpContent(uri string) ([]byte, error) {
client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", uri, nil)
if err != nil { return nil, err }
// set the user agent header to avoid kick backs.. as much
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0")
log.Printf("Requesting content from %v\n", uri)
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil { log.Fatalln(err) }
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil { return nil, err }
return body, nil
}