How to maintain a request session in NodeJS

Question

I\'m trying to use NodeJS to scrape a website that requires a login by POST. Then once I\'m logged in I can access a separate webpage by GET<

Answer 1

Request manages cookies between requests if you enable it:

Cookies are disabled by default (else, they would be used in subsequent requests). To enable cookies, set jar to true (either in defaults or options).

const request = request.defaults({jar: true})
request('http://www.google.com', function () {
  request('http://images.google.com')
});