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Posted by Camille Sébastien Niessen
Camille Sébastien Niessen
2,653 Points

How can I get data from multiple API's in a route using NodeJS with react and request?

Hi everyone,

I'm working with NodeJS for a while now, and started using data from API's for a application that I'm building. In one of my routes I'm performing a request to get data out of the Treehouse API. Now I also want to add a (or more) other API request to get data. I've been looking on the internet but couldn't find a solution! I hope someone can help me. This is de code:

routes/api.js var express = require('express'); var router = express.Router(); var request = require('request');

var username = "camillesbastienniessen";

router.get('/', function(req, res) {

request('http://teamtreehouse.com/' + username + '.json', function(error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        var data = JSON.parse(body);
        res.locals.data = data;

        res.locals.session = req.session;
        res.render('api/index');

    }
});

});

module.exports = router;

This is the extra API I want to get data from:

request('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=' + req.session.hometown + ',uk&APPID=b0149af4c0540497fa854049d3b550ad&lang=nl', function (error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { var weatherData = JSON.parse(body); } });

How can I load the data in the same view as the data from the Treehouse API? Hope you van help me!

Camille Sébastien Niessen
Camille Sébastien Niessen
2,653 Points

Sorry, de code krijg ik niet helemaal goed hier weergeven in codeblock ..

1 Answer

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points
Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points

Here is one way you can make multiple requests, using the Node request module. 

var request = require("request");

var weatherURL = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=london,uk&APPID=b0149af4c0540497fa854049d3b550ad&lang=no';
var treehouseURL = 'http://teamtreehouse.com/thomasnilsen.json'

var result = [];


function getTreehouseData(error, response, body) {
  if(!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
    result.push({
      treehouse: body
    });
  }

  request(weatherURL, getWeatherData);
}

function getWeatherData(error, response, body) {
  if(!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
    result[0].weather = body;
  }

  console.log(result);
}



//MAIN CALL

request(treehouseURL, getTreehouseData);
Camille Sébastien Niessen
Camille Sébastien Niessen
2,653 Points

Thanks so much, I'm going to try if it works!