What will be the nodejs equivalent of PHP curl code [duplicate]

Question

This might seem really silly but I'm trying to get some data from an API (WHMCS). In the docs they have code something like this:

// Call the API 
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whmcsUrl . 'includes/api.php'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields)); 
$response = curl_exec($ch); 
if (curl_error($ch)) { 
die('Unable to connect: ' . curl_errno($ch) . ' - ' . curl_error($ch)); 
} 
curl_close($ch); 
 
// Decode response 
$jsonData = json_decode($response, true); 
 
// Dump array structure for inspection 
var_dump($jsonData);

I've written code in nodejs using axios which aims to do the same thing:

axios.get(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?accesskey=${apiAccessKey}`, postFields)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))

Don't have a deep knowledge of either PHP or Node, please help! I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I execute this request in node? What am I doing wrong.

Update: Instead of passing an object (postFields), I'm now passing things like username or pw in the url itself:

axios.post(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?action=${apiAction}&username=${apiIdentifier}&password=${apiSecret}&accesskey=${apiAccessKey}&responsetype=json`)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))

Its still giving me 403 Forbidden error.

Are you making a GET or POST? For axios you are doing a GET, but PHP you are doing a POST — Andrew Nolan
– Andrew Nolan, Commented Aug 19, 2020 at 16:59
@AndrewNolan I'm getting the same error in both get and post calls — Amol Borkar
– Amol Borkar, Commented Aug 19, 2020 at 17:01

cyberwombat · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-26 01:43:16Z

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The axios equivalent of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields) is twofold - first stringify the params and pass them as the post body and secondly specify application/x-www-form-urlencoded as the content type in the headers.

Something like this:

const axios = require('axios')
const qs = require('qs')

const data = qs.stringify(postFieldsObject)
const config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: `${whmcsUrl}includes/api.php`,
  headers: { 
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  data : data
}

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data))
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error)
})

answered Aug 26, 2020 at 1:43

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2 Comments

Amol Borkar Over a year ago

Thanks! Can this be done without qs package? I'm not using node anymore.

cyberwombat Over a year ago

Yes 'qs.stringify'.You can also build it by hand easily. The key points are that this string is the POST data and not part of the URL and secondly the proper content type header must be passed.

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