What will be the nodejs equivalent of PHP curl code

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This might seem really silly but I'm trying to get some data from an API (WHMCS). In the docs they have code something like this:

// Call the API 
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whmcsUrl . 'includes/api.php'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields)); 
$response = curl_exec($ch); 
if (curl_error($ch)) { 
die('Unable to connect: ' . curl_errno($ch) . ' - ' . curl_error($ch)); 
} 
curl_close($ch); 
 
// Decode response 
$jsonData = json_decode($response, true); 
 
// Dump array structure for inspection 
var_dump($jsonData);

I've written code in nodejs using axios which aims to do the same thing:

axios.get(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?accesskey=${apiAccessKey}`, postFields)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))

Don't have a deep knowledge of either PHP or Node, please help! I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I execute this request in node? What am I doing wrong.

Update: Instead of passing an object (postFields), I'm now passing things like username or pw in the url itself:

axios.post(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?action=${apiAction}&username=${apiIdentifier}&password=${apiSecret}&accesskey=${apiAccessKey}&responsetype=json`)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))

Its still giving me 403 Forbidden error.

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1 Answers

The axios equivalent of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields) is twofold - first stringify the params and pass them as the post body and secondly specify application/x-www-form-urlencoded as the content type in the headers.

Something like this:

const axios = require('axios')
const qs = require('qs')

const data = qs.stringify(postFieldsObject)
const config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: `${whmcsUrl}includes/api.php`,
  headers: { 
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  data : data
}

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data))
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error)
})
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