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Thomas Decaux
Thomas Decaux

Reputation: 22651

NodeJS: Request ISO-8859-1 encoded content

I just want store in Mongo (so in UTF8) the content of a RSS feed. But I cannot even download content properly encoded :

var request = require('request');
var iconv = require('iconv');

var feedTest = function(url) {

request(url, {timeout: 20000}, function(error, resp, body) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(url + " : " + error);
    }
    else
    {
        var ic = new iconv.Iconv('iso-8859-1', 'utf-8');
        var buf = ic.convert(body);
        var buffer = buf.toString('utf-8');
        console.log(resp.statusCode);
        console.log(buffer);
    }
});
};

feedTest("http://feeds.feedburner.com/spin-off-actu");

The accent are not in clear. No problem in PHP with iconv, but with this NodeJS code what is wrong?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4693

Answers (1)

loganfsmyth
loganfsmyth

Reputation: 161447

The request module is already decoding body into a utf8 string. If you tell it not to decode the response first, your code works great.

{timeout: 20000, encoding: null}

Upvotes: 7

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