Big5 to utf-8 encoding while scraping website with Node-request

Question

I am new to Node.js, and I am trying to use the request model to scrap a website, I am having problem with the encoding: the target website is using big5 as encoding, and I wish

Answer 1

I use iconv-lite to decode big5 to utf8.

And you should set encoding:null that request will return raw encoding page.

This is sample code.

var iconv = require('iconv-lite');
var request = require('request');
request({ url: 'http://amis.afa.gov.tw/v-asp/v101r.asp',encoding:null}, function(err,     response, body) {
  if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {
    var str = iconv.decode(new Buffer(body), "big5");
    console.log(str);
  }
});

And return is

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I use node.js 0.10.20 on RedHat EL 6.4 and iconv-lite 0.2.11, request 2.27.0