How is an HTTP POST request made in node.js?

Question

How can I make an outbound HTTP POST request, with data, in node.js?

Answer 1

request is now deprecated. It is recommended you use an alternative

In no particular order and dreadfully incomplete:

• native HTTP/S, const https = require('https');
• node-fetch
• axios
• got
• superagent
• bent
• make-fetch-happen
• unfetch
• tiny-json-http
• needle
• urllib

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Original answer:

This gets a lot easier if you use the request library.

var request = require('request');

request.post(
    'http://www.yoursite.com/formpage',
    { json: { key: 'value' } },
    function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            console.log(body);
        }
    }
);

Aside from providing a nice syntax it makes json requests easy, handles oauth signing (for twitter, etc.), can do multi-part forms (e.g. for uploading files) and streaming.

To install request use command npm install request