How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node js

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I want to open a page up in node and process the contents in my application  Something like this seems to work well   var opts    host  host  path pathname  port  80   http get opts  function res      var page         res on  data   function  chunk        page    chunk          res on  end   function             process page         This doesn t work  however  if the page returns an 301 302 redirect  How would I do that in a reusable way in case there are multiple redirects  Is there a wrapper module on top of the http to more easily handle processing http responses from a node application

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If all you want to do is follow redirects but still want to use the built-in HTTP and HTTPS modules, I suggest you use https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects.

yarn add follow-redirects
npm install follow-redirects

All you need to do is replace:

var http = require('http');

with

var http = require('follow-redirects').http;

... and all your requests will automatically follow redirects.

With TypeScript you can also install the types

npm install @types/follow-redirects

and then use

import { http, https } from 'follow-redirects';

Disclosure: I wrote this module.

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Possibly a little bit of a necromancing post here  but     here s a function that follows up to 10 redirects  and detects infinite redirect loops  also parses result into JSON  Note - uses a callback helper  shown at the end of this post     TLDR  full working demo in context here or remixed-version here   function getJSON url cb        var callback errBack cb         var callback errBack cb undefined false    replace previous line with this to turn off logging      if  typeof url    string             return callback error  getJSON expecting url as string               if  typeof cb    function             return callback error  getJSON expecting cb as function               var redirs    url       fetch   function u           callback info  hitting   u           https get u  function res               var body                   callback info  statusCode res statusCode                if   301 302  indexOf res statusCode  gt  0                    if  redirs length gt 10                        return callback error  excessive 301 302 redirects detected                      else                       if  redirs indexOf res headers location  lt 0                            redirs push res headers location                           return fetch res headers location                         else                           return callback error  301 302 redirect loop detected                                                          else                 res on  data   function chunk                     body push chunk                     callback info  onData  chunkSize chunk length chunks body length                                     res on  end   function                      try                            convert to a single buffer                       var json   Buffer concat body                         console info  onEnd  chunks body length bodyLength body length                               parse the buffer as json                       return callback result JSON parse json  json                       catch  err                           console error  exception in getJSON fetch   err message  err                          if  json length gt 32                            console error  json   gt    json toString  utf-8   substr 0 32     lt              json length-32    more bytes of json                             else                             console error  json   gt    json toString  utf-8      lt     json                                                   return callback error err undefined json                                                                              fetch url          Note - uses a callback helper  shown below   you can paste this into the node console and it should run as is     or for full working demo in context see here    var   fs        require  fs    https     require  https     function errBack  cb THIS logger        var     self     EB function fn r e          if  logger   false               fn log fn info fn warn fn errlog function                      else              fn log          logger logger log     console log bind console              fn info         logger logger info    console info bind console              fn warn         logger logger warn    console warn bind console              fn errlog       logger logger error   console error bind console                   fn result r         fn error e         return  self fn              if  typeof cb    function            return EB               logger   false    optimization when not logging - don t log errors                 function err                      if  err                          cb  err                        return true                                          return false                                   function err                      if  err                          self errlog err                         cb  err                        return true                                          return false                                function                     return cb apply  THIS Array prototype concat apply  undefined  arguments                             function  err                   return cb apply  THIS Array prototype concat apply  typeof err    string  new Error err  err  arguments                                else           return EB              function err                  if  err                       if  typeof err     object   amp  amp  err instanceof Error                           throw err                       else                          throw new Error err                                           return true   redundant due to throw  but anyway                                  return false                            logger   false                 self log   optimization  resolves to noop when logger  false                 function                         self info  ignoring returned arguments   Array prototype concat apply    arguments                              function  err                   throw typeof err    string  new Error err  err                                 function getJSON url cb        var callback errBack cb        if  typeof url    string             return callback error  getJSON expecting url as string               if  typeof cb    function             return callback error  getJSON expecting cb as function               var redirs    url       fetch   function u           callback info  hitting   u           https get u  function res               var body                   callback info  statusCode res statusCode                if   301 302  indexOf res statusCode  gt  0                    if  redirs length gt 10                        return callback error  excessive 302 redirects detected                      else                       if  redirs indexOf res headers location  lt 0                            redirs push res headers location                           return fetch res headers location                         else                           return callback error  302 redirect loop detected                                                          else                 res on  data   function chunk                     body push chunk                     console info  onData  chunkSize chunk length chunks body length                                     res on  end   function                      try                            convert to a single buffer                       var json   Buffer concat body                         callback info  onEnd  chunks body length bodyLength body length                               parse the buffer as json                       return callback result JSON parse json  json                       catch  err                             read with  bypass refetch  option                       console error  exception in getJSON fetch   err message  err                          if  json length gt 32                            console error  json   gt    json toString  utf-8   substr 0 32     lt              json length-32    more bytes of json                             else                             console error  json   gt    json toString  utf-8      lt     json                                                   return callback error err undefined json                                                                              fetch url         var TLDs TLDs fallback    com org tech net biz info code ac ad ae af ag ai al am ao aq ar as at au aw ax az ba bb bd be bf bg bh bi bj bm bn bo br bs bt bv bw by bz ca cc cd cf cg ch ci ck cl cm cn co cr cu cv cw cx cy cz de dj dk dm do dz ec ee eg er es et eu fi fj fk fm fo fr ga gb gd ge gf gg gh gi gl gm gn gp gq gr gs gt gu gw gy hk hm hn hr ht hu id ie il im in io iq ir is it je jm jo jp ke kg kh ki km kn kp kr kw ky kz la lb lc li lk lr ls lt lu lv ly ma mc md me mg mh mk ml mm mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nc ne nf ng ni nl no np nr nu nz om pa pe pf pg ph pk pl pm pn pr ps 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TLDs          return read                fetch   function             getJSON TLD url function err data               if  err                    console log  exception in getTLDs fetch   err message  err                   return read true                       else                   TLDs Object keys data                    fs writeFile TLD cache JSON stringify TLDs  function err                       if  err                               ignore save error  we have the data                         CB WRAP TLDs                         else                              get mmtime for the file we just made                         fs stat TLD cache function err stats                               if   err  amp  amp  stats                                   TLD last msec   stats mtimeMs                                                             CB WRAP TLDs                                                                                                                   read function bypassFetch            fs readFile TLD cache  utf-8  function err json                try                   if  err                         if  bypassFetch                               after a http errror  we fallback to hardcoded basic list of tlds                            if the disk file is not readable                         console log  exception in getTLDs read bypassFetch   err messsage  err                                throw err                                               if the disk read failed  get the data from the CDN server instead                     return fetch                                       TLDs JSON parse json                   if  bypassFetch                           we need to update stats here as fetch called us directly                        instead of being called by check mtime                     return fs stat TLD cache function err stats                           if  err  return fetch                            TLD last msec  stats mtimeMs                          return CB WRAP TLDs                                                            catch  e                      after JSON error  if we aren t in an http fail situation  refetch from cdn server                 if   bypassFetch                        return fetch                                          after a http disk or json parse error  we fallback to hardcoded basic list of tlds                  console log  exception in getTLDs read   err messsage  err                       TLDs TLDs fallback                             return CB WRAP TLDs                           if  TLD last msec            return check mtime TLD last msec         else           fs stat TLD cache function err stats               if  err  return fetch                TLD last msec  stats mtimeMs              return check mtime TLD last msec                        getTLDs console log bind console

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In case of PUT or POST Request  if you receive statusCode 405 or method not allowed  Try this implementation with  request  library  and add mentioned properties         followAllRedirects  true        followOriginalHttpMethod  true         const options                headers                   Authorization  TOKEN                  Content-Type    application json                   Accept    application json                           url   https     url               json  true             body  payload             followAllRedirects  true             followOriginalHttpMethod  true                  console log  DEBUG  API call   JSON stringify options           request options  function  error  response  body           if   error            console log response

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Make another request based on response headers location         const request   function url            lib get url   response    gt              var body                 if  response statusCode    302                body                   request response headers location               else               response on  data                         response on  end                                      on  error                            request url

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Update    Now you can follow all redirects with var request   require  request    using the followAllRedirects param    request     followAllRedirects  true    url  url    function  error  response  body      if   error        console log response

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If you have https server  change your url to use https    protocol   I got into similar issue with this one  My url has http    protocol and I want to make a POST request  but the server wants to redirect it to https  What happen is that  turns out to be node http behavior sends the redirect request  next  in GET method which is not the case   What I did is to change my url to https    protocol and it works

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Is there a wrapper module on top of the http to more easily handle processing http responses from a node application    request  Redirection logic in request

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Here is my approach to download JSON with plain node  no packages required  import https from  quot https quot    function get url  resolve  reject      https get url   res    gt        if res statusCode     301    res statusCode     302          return get res headers location  resolve  reject             let body            res on  quot data quot    chunk    gt          body push chunk                res on  quot end quot        gt          try              remove JSON parse      for plain data         resolve JSON parse Buffer concat body  toString              catch  err            reject err                            async function getData url      return new Promise  resolve  reject    gt  get url  resolve  reject          call getData  quot some-url-with-redirect quot   then  r    gt  console log r

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Here is function I use to fetch the url that have redirect   const http   require  http    const url   require  url     function get  path  host   callback        http get           path          host        function response            if  response headers location                    var loc   response headers location              if  loc match   http                      loc   new Url loc                   host   loc host                  path   loc path                else                   path   loc                            get  host  path   callback             else               callback response                         it work the same as http get but follow redirect

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