NodeJS HttpGet to a URL with JSON response

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Original answer:

The request module makes this really easy. Install request into your package from npm, and then you can make a get request.

var request = require("request")

var url = "http://developer.cumtd.com/api/v2.2/json/GetStop?" +
    "key=d99803c970a04223998cabd90a741633" +
    "&stop_id=it"

request({
    url: url,
    json: true
}, function (error, response, body) {

    if (!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
        console.log(body) // Print the json response
    }
})

You can find documentation for request on npm: https://npmjs.org/package/request

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