npm request module--return a value

Question

In one of the examples in the request's documents shows this example:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/request#custom-http-headers

var request = require('request');
var options = {
  url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/request/request',
  headers: {
    'User-Agent': 'request'
  }
};

function callback(error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    var info = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(info.stargazers_count + " Stars");
    console.log(info.forks_count + " Forks");
  }
}

request(options, callback)

Lets' say I want the value of the variable info return to me.

How do I do it?

Answer 1

You cannot pass a value from an asynchronous command. The most common strategy used in Node.js is to wrap the code that requires the info variable in a function and call that from the callback.

eg:

function callback(error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    functionThatUsesInfo(info);
  }
}