I want to make a post request in nodejs without browser since it is backend code.
const formdata = new FormData()
formdata.append('chartfile', file);
But above code gives me error as FormData not defined.
I am working with ES6.
Anybody, who can let me know how to use the FormData in nodejs?
You can use form-data - npm module.
Use it this way,
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var form = new FormData();
form.append('my_field', 'my value');
form.append('my_buffer', new Buffer(10));
form.append('my_file', fs.createReadStream('/foo/bar.jpg'));
import FormData from 'form-data' But I get error form_data_1.default is not a contructor
var FormData = require('form-data'); Node JS doesn't support ES6 syntaxt for importing.import * as FormData from form-datasource.on is not a function. Sorry for my poor questionFormData is a Node API starting with Node 18If you only need to submit string values and not Buffer or ReadStream, then URLSearchParams can work for you!
Original Example
var fs = require('fs');
var form = new URLSearchParams();
form.append('my_field', 'my value');
form.append('my_second_field', 'my value 2');
form.append('my_third_field', 'my value 3');
Axios Example
const formData = new URLSearchParams();
formData.append('field1', 'value1');
formData.append('field2', 'value2');
const response = await axios.request({
url: 'https://example.com',
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: formData
});
multipart/form-data.
FormData is now a part of Node 18. They removed the experimental warning they introduced in Node 17: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d33cbabd79
Now you can use it with fetch without any dependencies.
FormData is a part of JS web API (not included in native NodeJS). You can install the form-data package instead.
import * as FormData from "form-data";
import { default as FormData } from "form-data";
import FormData from "form-data";In my opinion the cleanest solution that requires no additional dependencies is:
const formData = new URLSearchParams({
param1: 'this',
param2: 'is',
param3: 'neat',
})
I would suggest the npm module formdata-node because it's a complete (spec-compliant) FormData implementation for Node.js. It supports both ESM/CJS targets, so EM6 is supported. You can find a few examples at the npm module page.
node-fetch also exports FormData:
import { FormData } from "node-fetch";
const formdata = new FormData();
formdata.append("chartfile", file);
let _data = new FormData();
_data.append(`FaceDataRecord', '{"faceLibType":"blackFD","FDID":"1","FPID":"${employeeNo}"}`);
_data.append('img', fs.createReadStream('/C:/Users/ALIENWARE/Downloads/unnamed.jpg'));
let _config = {
method: 'put',
maxBodyLength: Infinity,
url: 'http://192.168.1.3/ISAPI/Intelligent/FDLib/FDSetUp?format=json',
headers: {
'Accept': '*/*',
'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
'Cookie': 'language=en; WebSession_F82FED6D22=' + cookie,
'Origin': 'http://192.168.1.3',
'Referer': 'http://192.168.1.3/index.asp',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
..._data.getHeaders()
},
data: _data
};
await axios.request(_config)
.then((response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
console.log(error);
});
TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
