POST data with request module on Node.JS

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This module is 'request https://github.com/mikeal/request

I think i'm following every step but i'm missing an argument..

var request = require('request');
request.post({
        url: 'http://localhost/test2.php',
         body: "mes=heydude"
         }, function(error, response, body){
            console.log(body);
    });

on the other end i have

echo $_POST['mes'];

And i know the php isn't wrong...

8 Answers

I have to get the data from a POST method of the PHP code. What worked for me was:

const querystring = require('querystring');
const request = require('request');

const link = 'http://your-website-link.com/sample.php';
let params = { 'A': 'a', 'B': 'b' };

params = querystring.stringify(params); // changing into querystring eg 'A=a&B=b'

request.post({
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }, // important to interect with PHP
  url: link,
  body: params,
}, function(error, response, body){
  console.log(body);
});

I highly recommend axios https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios install it with npm or yarn

const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('http://your_server/your_script.php')
    .then( response => {
    console.log('Respuesta', response.data);
    })
    .catch( response => {
        console.log('Error', response);
    })
    .finally( () => {
        console.log('Finalmente...');
    });
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