curl -d equivalent in Node.js http post request

Question

I know that the command

curl -X POST -d 'some data to send' http://somehost.com/api

can be emulated in Node.js with some code like

var http = require('http');
var post_data = 'some data to send',
    headers = {
        host: 'somehost.com',
        port: 80,
        method: 'POST',
        path: '/api',
        headers: {
            'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(post_data)
        }
    };

var request = http.request(headers, function(response) {
    response.on('data', function(d) {
        console.log(d);
    });
});
request.on('error', function(err) {
    console.log("An error ocurred!");
});
request.write(post_data));

request.end();

The question is because I'm looking for the equivalent in node of the cURL command

curl -d name="Myname" -d email="[email protected]" -X POST http://somehost.com/api

how can i do that?

This is because I wanna do a POST request to a Cherrypy server like this one, and I'm not able to complete the request.

EDIT The solution, as @mscdex said, was with the request library:

I've resolve the problem with the request library. My code for the solution is

var request = require('request');

request.post('http://localhost:8080/api', {
  form: {
    nombre: 'orlando'
  }
}, function(err, res) {
  console.log(err, res);
});

Thank you!

mscdex · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-14 00:43:20Z

6

You could encode it manually:

var post_data = 'name=Myname&[email protected]';

Or you could use a module like request to handle it for you (becomes especially nice if you have to upload files) since it will handle data escaping and other things for you.

answered May 14, 2014 at 0:43

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Orlando Over a year ago

You're right. I've resolve the problem with the request library. My code for the solution is var request = require('request'); request.post('localhost:8080/api', { form: { nombre: 'orlando' } }, function(err, res) { console.log(err, res); }); Thank you!

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