How to use request or http module to read gzip page into a string

Question

I found the request module in js cannot handle gzip or inflate format http response correctly.

for example:

request({url:\'some url\'}, function (err         


        

Answer 1

simplified example:

var https = require('https');
var gunzip = require('zlib').createGunzip();

var options = {
    host: 'api.stackexchange.com',
    path: '/2.1/info?site=stackoverflow'
};

https.get(options, function(res) {
  var body = '';

  res.pipe(gunzip);

  gunzip.on('data', function (data) {
      body += data;
  });

  gunzip.on('end', function() {
      console.log(JSON.parse(body));
  });
});