How to use query string parameters in NodeJS request

Problem:

You’re using the request library in order to make a HTTP GET request:

const request = require("request")

request.get("http://localhost:8000", function(err, response, body) {
    console.log(err, body);
})

Now you’re trying to add query parameters to the request. For this example, we’ll assume that you want to add one parameter: foo=bar

Solution

You can use the qs parameter like this:

const request = require("request")

request.get({url: "http://localhost:8000", qs: {"foo": "bar"}}, function(err, response, body) {
    console.log(err, body);
})

Note that just adding a qs parameter to request.get won’t work, you need to have a dictionary as first argument that contains at least {"url": <your URL>, "qs": {<one or multiple query parameters>}}

Credits to Daniel at StackOverflow