In this post let’s take a quick look at how to make a POST request in Node.js with Axios npm package. We have already taken a look at how to make GET requests using Axios npm library by scraping a web page.

Axios is a very popular JavaScript library you can use to perform HTTP requests, that works in both Browser and Node.js platforms.

Making a GET request and reading its response is easy with Axios.

axios.get("https://forecast7.com/en/19d0872d88/mumbai/")
    .then(response => {
      console.log(response.data);
}

You can make a POST request like the following sample code.

let  apiResponse = await axios({
      url: "https://dev.poopcode.com/users/jbashe",
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        authorization: token,
      },
      data: {
        group: params.group,
        message: params.message
      },
    });

data is the request payload we send to the API via POST method. In the api these data will be retrieved as req.body.group and req.body.message