I'm looking for a simple way to fetch a REST API in Coffeescript and get a json. I'm using the request library. When I do that, nothing happen, no error.

request = require 'request'

resp = ""
request.get {uri:'', json : true}, (err, r, body) -> resp = body
console.log "BODY: " + resp

What do I do wrong? Do you know a better way to get a json from a REST api in coffeescript? Thanks a lot!

I'm looking for a simple way to fetch a REST API in Coffeescript and get a json. I'm using the request library. When I do that, nothing happen, no error.

request = require 'request'

resp = ""
request.get {uri:'https://api.service.co/search?query=paris', json : true}, (err, r, body) -> resp = body
console.log "BODY: " + resp

What do I do wrong? Do you know a better way to get a json from a REST api in coffeescript? Thanks a lot!

• javascript
• json
• http
• coffeescript
• request

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I suspect your issue is that request.get executes asynchronously, so by the time it hits the console.log statement, resp is always "".

Try this:

request = require 'request'

resp = ""
request.get {uri:'https://api.service.co/search?query=paris', json : true}, (err, r, body) ->
  resp = body
  console.log "BODY: " + resp