Node.js and Google Pagespeed API

Question

I'm trying to build a little Google Pagespeed client in Node, but I'm struggling with the https client. The request always returns with a 302 response, but the exact same url works perfectly in curl and browsers

options = {
    host: 'https://www.googleapis.com'
    , path: '/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?url=' + program.uri + '/&prettyprint=false&strategy=' + program.strategy + '&key=' + program.key
}

https.get(options, function(res) {
    console.log("statusCode: ", res.statusCode);
    console.log("headers: ", res.headers);
    res.on('data', function(d) {
        process.stdout.write(d);
    });
}).on('error', function(e) {
    console.error(e);
});

Am I missing something? Tried sending a few different header, but it didn't make much difference

Answer 1

Drop the https:// prefix in host, and you should be good to go. See the docs here.

Here's a working example, just substitute your own URL and API key:

var https = require('https'),
    key = 'KEY',
    url = 'URL',
    strategy = 'desktop';

https.get({
    host: 'www.googleapis.com', 
    path: '/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?url=' + encodeURIComponent(url) + 
          '&key='+key+'&strategy='+strategy
    }, function(res) {
      console.log("statusCode: ", res.statusCode);
      console.log("headers: ", res.headers);

      res.on('data', function(d) {
        process.stdout.write(d);
      });
}).on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e);
});