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Posted by Usman Badar
Usman Badar
9,304 Points

API in Node

Hi, I have an api and would like to update its query parameter to any country name form command line, how can I do this? I have looked up node documentation but could not make it work.

API = https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/{name}?fullText=true

Thanks

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points

Command line arguments are available from the "process.argv" array. For example, this will output your URL with the name of each argument plugged in:

args = process.argv.slice(2);    // skip "node" and the name of this program
for (name of args) {             // build URLs from the rest
    url = `https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/${name}?fullText=true`;
    console.log(url);
}