Node.js: TypeError: object is not a function

node.js

Solution

Access to the `request` global variable is lost as you have a local variable with the same name. Renaming either one of the variables will solve this issue:

var http = require("http"); var request = require("request");

http.createServer(function(req, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
    request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
      if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log(body) // Print the google web page.
      }
    })
  response.end();
}).listen(8888);

Problem

I have a weird error: ``` var http = require("http"); var request = require("request"); http.createServer(function(request, response) { response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { console.log(body) // Print the google web page. } }); response.end(); }).listen(8888); ``` The idea is for it to listen as a webserver, and then do a request. But this is what I get as error: ``` request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) { ^ TypeError: object is not a function at Server.<anonymous> (/Users/oplgkim/Desktop/iformtest/j.js:8:2) at Server.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17) at HTTPParser.parser.onIncoming (http.js:2056:12) at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete [as onHeadersComplete] (http.js:120:23) at Socket.socket.ondata (http.js:1946:22) at TCP.onread (net.js:525:27) ``` What am I doing wrong? I installed request, so that's not it :)

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