Answer by Vince for Where is the body in a nodejs http.get response?

You can't get the body of the response from the return value of http.get().

http.get() doesn't return a response object. It returns the request object (http.clientRequest). So, there isn't any way to get the body of the response from the return value of http.get().

I know it's an old question, but reading the documentation you linked to shows that this was the case even when you posted it.