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NutellaAddict
NutellaAddict

Reputation: 584

$.ajax call node js equivalent?

I am not very familiar with Node js and as well as dealing with http requests so pardon me if this is something obvious.

I am following the examples on this website: 

$.ajax({
  url: 'https://api.wit.ai/message',
  data: {
    'q': 'set an alarm in 10min',
    'access_token' : 'MY_WIT_TOKEN'
  },
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  method: 'GET',
  success: function(response) {
      console.log("success!", response);
  }
});

I am trying to create the equivalent of this but in Node Js. I attempted to use 'node request' however my code is not working. I have attempted a lot of variations of this but to no avail.

Here is an example:

var request = require('request');

var url = 'https://api.wit.ai/message';

var data = {
    'q': 'hello test123 trying to get entities from this message',
    'access_token': 'MY_WIT_TOKEN'
};

request.get({ url: url, formData: data }, function (err, httpResponse, body) {
    if (err) {
        return console.error('post failed:', err);
    }

    console.log('Get successful!  Server responded with:', body);
});

When I compile this code, my terminal replies with:

Something went wrong. We've been notified.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1664

Answers (2)

NutellaAddict
NutellaAddict

Reputation: 584

To anyone interested here is the answer using node request that worked for me.

var request = require('request');

var headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer <WIT_TOKEN>'
};

var options = {
    url: 'https://api.wit.ai/message?v=20160607&q=hello',
    headers: headers
};

function callback(error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log(body);
    }
}

request(options, callback);

Upvotes: 2

Schlaus
Schlaus

Reputation: 19212

Use http:

var http = require('http');

http.get({
    host: 'api.wit.ai',
    path: '/message'
}, function(response) {

    var body = '';

    // get all data from the stream
    response.on('data', function(data) {
        body += data;
    });

    response.on('end', function() {
        // all data received
       console.log(body)
    });
});

Upvotes: 2

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