Answer by yojimbo87 for Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?

http.request docs contains example how to receive body of the response through handling data event:

var options = {  host: 'www.google.com',  port: 80,  path: '/upload',  method: 'POST'};var req = http.request(options, function(res) {  console.log('STATUS: '+ res.statusCode);  console.log('HEADERS: '+ JSON.stringify(res.headers));  res.setEncoding('utf8');  res.on('data', function (chunk) {    console.log('BODY: '+ chunk);  });});req.on('error', function(e) {  console.log('problem with request: '+ e.message);});// write data to request bodyreq.write('data\n');req.write('data\n');req.end();

http.get does the same thing as http.request except it calls req.end() automatically.

var options = {  host: 'www.google.com',  port: 80,  path: '/index.html'};http.get(options, function(res) {  console.log("Got response: "+ res.statusCode);  res.on("data", function(chunk) {    console.log("BODY: "+ chunk);  });}).on('error', function(e) {  console.log("Got error: "+ e.message);});