curl -d equivalent in Node.js http post request
curl, javascript, node.js, post
Solution
You could encode it manually:
var post_data = 'name=Myname&email=myemail@gmail.com';
Or you could use a module like request to handle it for you (becomes especially nice if you have to upload files) since it will handle data escaping and other things for you.
Problem
I know that the command ``` curl -X POST -d 'some data to send' http://somehost.com/api ``` can be emulated in Node.js with some code like ``` var http = require('http'); var post_data = 'some data to send', headers = { host: 'somehost.com', port: 80, method: 'POST', path: '/api', headers: { 'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(post_data) } }; var request = http.request(headers, function(response) { response.on('data', function(d) { console.log(d); }); }); request.on('error', function(err) { console.log("An error ocurred!"); }); request.write(post_data)); request.end(); ``` The question is because I'm looking for the equivalent in node of the cURL command ``` curl -d name="Myname" -d email="myemail@gmail.com" -X POST http://somehost.com/api ``` how can i do that? This is because I wanna do a POST request to a Cherrypy server like this one, and I'm not able to complete the request. EDIT The solution, as @mscdex said, was with the request library: I've resolve the problem with the request library. My code for the solution is ``` var request = require('request'); request.post('http://localhost:8080/api', { form: { nombre: 'orlando' } }, function(err, res) { console.log(err, res); }); ``` Thank you!