I want to send a post request that contain a form data, i want to do that from nodejs to another external api, i don't have the front-end to send the formData, so all i have a javascript object that has keys and values, so how can i do that?, when i tried sending a normal object, i didn't get the right api response, but when i sent it with a POSTMAN client, i got the correct response.
If you have a correct result in Postman, it's interesting to use the code generator in the same tools to have the desired code :). The button "</>" is on the right bar of the screen.
Here is the code generated from the tool :
var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var data = new FormData();
data.append('data', 'asldkfjalsdkjf');
var config = {
method: 'post',
url: 'https://some-domain.com/formdata',
headers: {
...data.getHeaders()
},
data : data
};
axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
It's cool, isn't it? One more thing, you have many options from NodeJS to C#, PHP.. :)
So you want to make a post request with nodejs? In order to do so, you can use the axios library and send the data in the following way.
const axios = require('axios');
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('x': 'some test data');
axios({
method: 'post',
url: 'https://stackoverflow.com/posts/67709177',
data: formData,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data' },
})
.then(res => {
console.log(`statusCode: ${res.statusCode}`)
console.log(res)
})
.catch(error => {
console.error(error)
})
You can install axios using this command.
npm i axios
