AWS Lambda HTTP POST Request (Node.js)

Question

I'm relatively new to AWS lambda function and nodejs. I'm working on to try and get the list of 5 cities in a country by using HTTP POST request from this website: "http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?op=GetCitiesByCountry"

I've been searching about how to do a HTTP POST request in lambda function but I can't seem to find a good explanation for it.

Searches that I found for http post:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-post How to make an HTTP POST request in node.js?

Answer 1

Try the following sample, invoking HTTP GET or POST request in nodejs from AWS lambda

const data = {
    "data": "your data"
};
const options = {
    hostname: 'hostname',
    port: port number,
    path: urlpath,
    method: 'method type'
};
    
const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('data', (chunk) => {
    // code to execute
});
res.on('end', () => {
    // code to execute      
    });
});
req.on('error', (e) => {
     callback(null, "Error has occured");
});
req.write(data);
req.end();

Consider the sample