feat: write fetch function

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/links/fetch.go b/internal/links/fetch.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..864d754
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/links/fetch.go
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package links
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func fetch(rawURL string, timeoutSecs int) (io.Reader, error) {
+	client := http.Client{
+		Timeout: time.Duration(timeoutSecs) * time.Second,
+	}
+
+	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, rawURL, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't create %s request for %s", http.MethodGet, rawURL)
+	}
+
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("client failed to perform %s request for %s", http.MethodGet, rawURL)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	return bufio.NewReader(resp.Body), nil
+}