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Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points
Posted by Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points

I'm trying to do the extra credit for Node.js Retrieving Data - Solution section of the Node course.

@Andrew Chalkley I'm trying to do the extra credit part of the node.js course. I decided to get a BTC/USD quote from the gdax api - https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-USD/ticker

I don't need a key or any auth for the public section, not unlike the treehouse example. I believe the endpoint returns JSON since the trade_id is quoted:

{"trade_id":39710034,"price":"8168.04000000","size":"0.54430000","bid":"8168.03","ask":"8168.04","volume":"19043.68798076","time":"2018-03-16T13:10:13.305000Z"}

But my app gives me a User- Agent error??? cg@DESKTOP-6G081A7 MINGW64 ~/documents $ node app.js { message: 'User-Agent header is required.' }

what am I doing wrong, or what and how do I set the User-Agent Header... isn't that done automatically in the browser

2 Answers

Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points
Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points 
//app.js
const https = require('https');

//https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-USD/ticker
//https://teamtreehouse.com/chrisgrazioli.json
function get(){
  const request = https.get('https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-USD/ticker', response =>{
    let body='';
    response.on('data', chunk=>{
      body += chunk.toString();
    }).on('end', ()=>{
      let quote = JSON.parse(body);
      //console.log(quote.points.JavaScript);
      console.log(quote);
;    });
  });
};

get();
Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points
Chris Grazioli
Chris Grazioli
31,225 Points

Andrew Chalkley Any ideas on what might be going on here?