Can I use other node.js libraries in Meteor?

Question

I was playing around with an idea and wanted to get some json from another site. I found with node.js people seem to use http.get to accomplish this however I discovered it wasn't that easy in Meteor. Is there another way to do this or a way to access http so I can call get? I wanted an interval that could collect data from an external source to augment the data the clients would interact with.

Accepted Answer

Looks like you can get at `require` this way:

```
var http = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('http');
```

Note that this'll probably only work on the server, so make sure it's protected with a check for `Meteor.is_server`.

Can I use other node.js libraries in Meteor?

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