Parse JSON In Node.js From External URL
In one of my articles, I have described about How To Parse JSON In Node.js. In that article I have told some ways to parse JSON without parsing from external URL. Today I am going to share this method with you. Let’s follow these steps:
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Step 1 : Install Request Package
Request package helps us to parse JSON from an external URL. Go to your project directory using CMD. Then type this command to install request package:
nmp install request
Step 2 : Create a JS File
We have downloaded the main necessary library for this project. Now create a file named “server.js” in the root directory of your project. Open the JS file with an editor and paste this code:
var request = require("request")
var url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1"
request({
url: url,
json: true
}, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
console.log(body) // Print the json response
}
})
Step 3 : Run the Project
Our project is ready to run. Let’s run the project and see the output:
node server
When I run the project, I have seen this output:

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