External API Call

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1

Hi guys,
i started a small NodeJS project, with Express here on Glitch.
My api needs to call an external api for gathering results.
Is this possible from a Glitch project? I tried it but the call fails.
Thanks guys!

2

Yes - Glitch is essentially a server with Nodejs pre-installed. You can use a npm module like request to make requests.

3

Yep, i just installed the request dependency but the call to the external api is not working. Is there any policy to enable or something like that?

4

Just another detail. The call is not working if nested in a request GET block. This is the code snippet:

app.get("/ping", function(request, response) { 
  request.get(myEndPoint, (error, response, body) => {
        if(error) {
            return console.dir(error);
        }
        console.log(JSON.parse(body));
    });
});
5

Do you mind sharing the external API endpoint?

6

Yeeep. Is a public API: http://ergast.com/api/f1/current/last/results.json.
As said, the call is not working when nested in a app.get block. If i put this call just at the start of the script, the data are downloaded.
This problem is only on Glitch, on my local machine the problem is not present.

7

It seems to work fine for me on Glitch. I’m using the following code

app.get("/cool", (req, res) => {
  request.get("http://ergast.com/api/f1/current/last/results.json", (error, response, body) => {
    if (error) {
      console.dir(error);
      res.send("err");
    }
    console.log(JSON.parse(body));
    res.send("ok");  
   });
});

The issue of your code is that when you’re trying to use the request library. However, the function(request, response) overwrites the request variable.

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8

Damn, what a dumb error…too much food during this holidays :smiley: Thank you so much :smiley:

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