How to make remote REST call inside Node js any CURL

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In Node js  other than using child process to make CURL call  is there a way to make CURL call to remote server REST API and get the return data   I also need to set up the request header to the remote REST call  and also query string as well in GET  or POST     I find this one  http   blog nodejitsu com jsdom-jquery-in-5-lines-on-nodejs  but it doesn t show any way to POST query string

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var http   require  http    var url   process argv 2    http get url  function response      var finalData          response on  data   function  data        finalData    data toString             response on  end   function         console log finalData length       console log finalData toString

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If you have Node js 4 4   take a look at reqclient  it allows you to make calls and log the requests in cURL style  so you can easily check and reproduce the calls outside the application   Returns Promise objects instead of pass simple callbacks  so you can handle the result in a more  fashion  way  chain the result easily  and handle errors in a standard way  Also removes a lot of boilerplate configurations on each request  base URL  time out  content type format  default headers  parameters and query binding in the URL  and basic cache features   This is an example of how to initialize it  make a call and log the operation with curl style   var RequestClient   require  reqclient   RequestClient  var client   new RequestClient       baseUrl  http   baseurl com api    debugRequest true  debugResponse true    client post  client orders     client   1234   ref id    A987     x-token    AFF01XX       This will log in the console      Requesting client orders - gt  -X POST http   baseurl com api client orders -d    client   1234   ref id    A987    -H    x-token    AFF01XX    -H Content-Type application json   And when the response is returned       Response   client orders  lt - Status 200 -   orderId   1320934    This is an example of how to handle the response with the promise object   client get  reports clients      then function response           Do something with the result      catch console error       In case of error       Of course  it can be installed with  npm install reqclient

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Warning  As of Feb 11th 2020  request is fully deprecated   If you implement with form-data  for more info  https   tanaikech github io 2017 07 27 multipart-post-request-using-node js    var fs   require  fs    var request   require  request    request post     url   https   slack com api files upload     formData        file  fs createReadStream  sample zip        token       access token           filetype   zip       filename   samplefilename       channels   sample       title   sampletitle           function  error  response  body      console log body

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You can use curlrequest to easily set what time of request you want to do    you can even set headers in the options to  fake  a browser call

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To use latest Async Await features  https   www npmjs com package request-promise-native  npm install --save request npm install --save request-promise-native     code  async function getData         try            var rp   require   request-promise-native              var options               uri  https   reqres in api users 2             json true                     var response   await rp options           return response       catch error           throw error                   try      console log getData      catch error       console log error

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I have been using restler for making webservices call  works like charm and is pretty neat

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I didn t find any with cURL so I wrote a wrapper around node-libcurl and can be found at https   www npmjs com package vps-rest-client   To make a POST is like so   var host    https   api budgetvm com v2 dns record   var key    some   key   var domain id    some   id    var rest   require  vps-rest-client    var client   rest createClient key      verbose  false      var post       domain  domain id    record   test example net     type   A     content   111 111 111 111      client post host  post  then function resp      console info resp      if  resp success     true           some action       client close       catch  err    gt  console info err

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Warning  As of Feb 11th 2020  request is fully deprecated  One another example - you need to install request module for that var request   require  request    function get trustyou trust you id  callback        var options             uri    https   api trustyou com hotels   trust you id   seal json           method    GET              var res           request options  function  error  response  body            if   error  amp  amp  response statusCode    200                res   body                    else               res    Not Found                     callback res              get trustyou  quot 674fa44c-1fbd-4275-aa72-a20f262372cd quot   function resp       console log resp

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How about using Request     Simplified HTTP client    Edit February 2020  Request has been deprecated so you probably shouldn t use it any more   Here s a GET   var request   require  request    request  http   www google com   function  error  response  body        if   error  amp  amp  response statusCode    200            console log body     Print the google web page              OP also wanted a POST   request post  http   service com upload    form  key  value

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I found superagent to be really useful  it is very simple for example  const superagent require  superagent   superagent  get  google com    set  Authorization   Authorization object    set  Accept   application json

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Look at http request  var options       host  url    port  80    path    resource id foo amp bar baz     method   POST      http request options  function res      console log  STATUS      res statusCode     console log  HEADERS      JSON stringify res headers      res setEncoding  utf8      res on  data   function  chunk        console log  BODY      chunk            end

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Axios  An example  axios example js  using Axios in Node js   const axios   require  axios    const express   require  express    const app   express    const port   process env PORT    5000   app get   search   function req  res        let query   req query queryStr      let url    https   your service org query   query         axios           method  get           url          auth                username   the username               password   the password                        then function  response            res send JSON stringify response data                catch function  error            console log error                var server   app listen port     Be sure in your project directory you do   npm init npm install express npm install axios node axios example js   You can then test the Node js REST API using your browser at  http   localhost 5000 search queryStr xxxxxxxxx  Similarly you can do post  such as   axios     method   post     url   https   your service org user 12345     data        firstName   Fred       lastName   Flintstone            SuperAgent  Similarly you can use SuperAgent   superagent get  https   your service org query xxxx    end  err  response    gt        if  err    return console log err         res send JSON stringify response body          And if you want to do basic authentication   superagent get  https   your service org query xxxx    auth  the username    the password    end  err  response    gt        if  err    return console log err         res send JSON stringify response body          Ref    https   github com axios axios https   www twilio com blog 2017 08 http-requests-in-node-js html

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Look at http   isolasoftware it 2012 05 28 call-rest-api-with-node-js   var https   require  https            HOW TO Make an HTTP Call - GET        options for GET var optionsget         host    graph facebook com      here only the domain name         no http https        port   443      path     youscada      the rest of the url with parameters if needed     method    GET     do GET     console info  Options prepared     console info optionsget   console info  Do the GET call        do the GET request var reqGet   https request optionsget  function res        console log  statusCode     res statusCode          uncomment it for header details     console log  headers     res headers         res on  data   function d            console info  GET result  n            process stdout write d           console info   n nCall completed                  reqGet end    reqGet on  error   function e        console error e               HOW TO Make an HTTP Call - POST        do a POST request    create the JSON object jsonObject   JSON stringify        message     The web of things is approaching  let do some tests to be ready         name     Test message posted with node js        caption     Some tests with node js        link     http   www youscada com        description     this is a description        picture     http   youscada com wp-content uploads 2012 05 logo2 png        actions                 name     youSCADA            link     http   www youscada com                  prepare the header var postheaders          Content-Type     application json        Content-Length    Buffer byteLength jsonObject   utf8          the post options var optionspost         host    graph facebook com       port   443      path     youscada feed access token your api key       method    POST       headers   postheaders     console info  Options prepared     console info optionspost   console info  Do the POST call        do the POST call var reqPost   https request optionspost  function res        console log  statusCode     res statusCode          uncomment it for header details     console log  headers     res headers        res on  data   function d            console info  POST result  n            process stdout write d           console info   n nPOST completed                    write the json data reqPost write jsonObject   reqPost end    reqPost on  error   function e        console error e               Get Message - GET        options for GET var optionsgetmsg         host    graph facebook com      here only the domain name         no http https        port   443      path     youscada feed access token you api key      the rest of the url with parameters if needed     method    GET     do GET     console info  Options prepared     console info optionsgetmsg   console info  Do the GET call        do the GET request var reqGet   https request optionsgetmsg  function res        console log  statusCode     res statusCode          uncomment it for header details     console log  headers     res headers         res on  data   function d            console info  GET result after POST  n            process stdout write d           console info   n nCall completed                  reqGet end    reqGet on  error   function e        console error e

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I use node-fetch because it uses the familiar  if you are a web developer  fetch   API  fetch   is the new way to make arbitrary HTTP requests from the browser   Yes I know this is a node js question  but don t we want to reduce the number of API s developers have to memorize and understand  and improve re-useability of our javascript code  Fetch is a standard so how about we converge on that   The other nice thing about fetch   is that it returns a javascript Promise  so you can write async code like this   let fetch   require  node-fetch     fetch  http   localhost       method   POST     headers    Content-Type    application json      body          then response   gt      return response json       catch err   gt   console log err        Fetch supersedes XMLHTTPRequest  Here s some more info

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