Question

How to read JSON from URL in Node.js

Answer 1

const http = require('http');
 
http.get("http://www.collectivesolver.com/package.json", res => {
    let jdata = '';
    res.on('data', fdata => {
        jdata += fdata;
    });
 
    let json;
    res.on('end', () => {
      if (res.statusCode === 200) {
        try {  
            json = JSON.parse(jdata);
            console.log(json);
        } catch (e) {
            console.log(e.message);
          }
      } else {
          console.log(res.statusCode); 
      }
    });
}).on('error', e => {
     console.log(e.message);
});



    
/*
run:
  
{
  name: 'javascript_node',
  version: '1.0.0',
  description: 'Learn Node',
  main: 'index.js',
  scripts: { start: 'node index', dev: 'nodemon index' },
  author: 'Avi Bootz',
  license: 'ISC',
  dependencies: { express: '^4.17.1', moment: '^2.24.0', uuid: '^7.0.2' },
  devDependencies: { nodemon: '^2.0.2' },
  keywords: []
}

*/

 

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