Proxied fetch

Val Town offers a proxied version of the standard fetch method that uses proxies and retries for more reliability. This is useful for websites that block requests made from data centers or have unreliable uptime. However it is slower than the standard fetch method. std/fetch has the same API as the standard fetch method.

Usage

You can use std/fetch just like the standard fetch method.

import { fetch } from "https://esm.town/v/std/fetch";

let result = await fetch("https://api64.ipify.org?format=json");
let json = await result.json();
console.log(json.ip);

Run in Val Town

If you run the above code multiple times, you’ll see that it returns different IP addresses, because std/fetch uses proxies, so that each request is made from a different IP address.