send Content-Type: application/json post with node.js

Question

How can we make a HTTP request like this in NodeJS? Example or module appreciated.

curl https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url 
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 
  -d '{"longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"}'

Answer 1

Mikeal's request module can do this easily:

var request = require('request');

var options = {
  uri: 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url',
  method: 'POST',
  json: {
    "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"
  }
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body.id) // Print the shortened url.
  }
});