Quick Note HTTP Request in Node

Chris Phillips
1 min readApr 28, 2018

I am only posting this because every time i need to do one I end up googling it.

var request = require('request');

var options = {
url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/request/request',
headers: {
'User-Agent': 'request'
}
};

function callback(error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
var info = JSON.parse(body);
console.log(info.stargazers_count + " Stars");
console.log(info.forks_count + " Forks");
}
}

request(options, callback);

Taken from https://github.com/request/request

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