Inside the code, I want to download http://www.google.com and store it in a string.
I know how to do that in urllib in python. But how do you do it in Node.JS + Express?
Using node.js you can just use the http.request method
http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.7/api/all.html#http.request
This method is built into node you just need to require http.
If you just want to do a GET, then you can use http.get
http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.7/api/all.html#http.get
var options = {
host: 'www.google.com',
port: 80,
path: '/index.html'
};
http.get(options, function(res) {
console.log(Got response: + res.statusCode);
}).on('error', function(e) {
console.log(Got error: + e.message);
});
(Example from node.js docs)
You could also use mikeal's request module
https://github.com/mikeal/request
