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No it's not possible.

In the browser you can't do cross domain requests unless CORS is enabled on the website you want to query.

You can still expose the library through a rest api but you'll need a backend.

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Assuming CORS can be solved somehow (CORS proxy for example). Do you think the module can easily be modified to run on browser? It seems that the only problem is superagent.agent that is used by the x-ray-crawler and only exists in the node environment.

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If the only problem is the superagent.agent in x-ray-crawler , you only have to replace this dependency with something else like fetch, axios or another library.

Hint: try to look into X-ray pluggable drivers, maybe you can make a custom driver that run in browsers.

You have to modify the Xray signature:

In xray
Replace:

function Xray (options) {
  var crawler = Crawler()

With :

function Xray (options, driver) {
  var crawler = Crawler(driver)

In torrent-provider

Replace:

      this.__x = Xray({ filters: filters });
      this.__x.driver(driver({
        method: 'GET',
        jar: this.cookieJar,
        headers: this.headers
      }))

With:

      this.__x = Xray({ filters: filters }, driver({
        method: 'GET',
        jar: this.cookieJar,
        headers: this.headers
      }));

Then you have to adapt the driver x-ray-request driver to use browser-request instead of request

I think this should work.

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