cURL equivalent in Node.js?

Use request npm module and after call

var request = require('request');
request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
  console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
  console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
  console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
});

For best practice also use some winston logger module or else simple console.log and then run your application like

npm start output.txt 

Result of above command will generate one txt file on root with all data which you have printed in console.log

Here is a standard lib (http) async / await solution.

const http = require("http");

const fetch = async (url) => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    http
      .get(url, (resp) => {
        let data = "";
        resp.on("data", (chunk) => {
          data += chunk;
        });
        resp.on("end", () => {
          resolve(data);
        });
      })
      .on("error", (err) => {
        reject(err);
      });
  });
};

Usage:

await fetch("http://example.com");

In Node.js 18 you can use directly fetch

const res = await fetch('https://nodejs.org/api/documentation.json');
if (res.ok) {
  const data = await res.json();
  console.log(data);
}

Uses reqclient, it's a small client module on top of request that allows you to log all the activity with cURL style (optional, for development environments). Also has nice features like URL and parameters parsing, authentication integrations, cache support, etc.

For example, if you create a client object an do a request:

var RequestClient = require("reqclient").RequestClient;
var client = new RequestClient({
        baseUrl:"http://baseurl.com/api/v1.1",
        debugRequest:true, debugResponse:true
    });

var resp = client.post("client/orders", {"client":1234,"ref_id":"A987"}, {headers: {"x-token":"AFF01XX"}})

It will log within the console something like this:

[Requesting client/orders]-> -X POST http://baseurl.com/api/v1.1/client/orders -d '{"client": 1234, "ref_id": "A987"}' -H '{"x-token": "AFF01XX"}' -H Content-Type:application/json
[Response   client/orders]<- Status 200 - {"orderId": 1320934}

The request will return a Promise object, so you have to handle with then and catch what to do with the result.

reqclient is available with npm, you can install the module with: npm install reqclient.

Request npm module Request node moulde is good to use, it have options settings for get/post request plus it is widely used in production environment too.

You can use request npm module . Super simple to use. Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.

var request = require('request');
request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
  console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
  console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
  console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
});