How is an HTTP POST request made in node.js?

Mark picture Mark · May 28, 2011 · Viewed 1.2M times · Source

How can I make an outbound HTTP POST request, with data, in node.js?

Answer

Jed Watson picture Jed Watson · Oct 21, 2012

request is now deprecated. It is recommended you use an alternative

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Original answer:

This gets a lot easier if you use the request library.

var request = require('request');

request.post(
    'http://www.yoursite.com/formpage',
    { json: { key: 'value' } },
    function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            console.log(body);
        }
    }
);

Aside from providing a nice syntax it makes json requests easy, handles oauth signing (for twitter, etc.), can do multi-part forms (e.g. for uploading files) and streaming.

To install request use command npm install request