Node.js HTTP Get Request to Mailchimp Returns Error

Question

Whenever I run the following curl code, my request to the Mailchimp 3.0 API goes through just fine:

curl --request GET \
--url 'https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/' \
--user 'anystring:APIKEY'

However, whenever I make a request to the API using Node.js, I receive the following error:

Got error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80

I'm assuming I'm missing something or have something mismatched within my .js file, any ideas as to what that might be? Node code is below:

 "use strict";
/* globals require, console */
var http = require('http');


var options = {
    url: 'https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'anystring:APIKEY',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    }
};

http.get(options, (res) => {
  console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
  // consume response body
  res.resume();
}).on('error', (e) => {
  console.log(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
});

EDIT: Using uncaught exception returns the following:

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:80
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:856:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:879:20)
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1053:14)

EDIT 2: Fixed part of it. Was using url as one of my options instead of host. Here is the correct code for that portion:

var options = {
    host: 'https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'anystring:APIKEY',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    }
};

Now I'm receiving the traceback Got response: 400 instead of the data I'm looking to pull.

try this and tell what the console displays `.on('uncaughtException', function (err) { console.log(err); });` — ZEE, Sep 02 '16 at 04:02
that is a weird traceback. you are making a request to 'https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/' but you get a response saying that the connection to local environment failed..are you proxying? you need to check the webserver config how that is set up. — slopeofhope, Sep 02 '16 at 04:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '16 at 04:18

According to the documentation there is no url property in options. You are supposed to specify a host, and a path.

Your options object should look as follows.

var options = {
host: 'https://us12.api.mailchimp.com',
path : '/3.0/'
headers: {
    'Authorization': 'anystring:APIKEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
};

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '16 at 04:29

Alright I seem to have it working, a few things needed to be changed:

As @I-Am-Not-Legend mentioned, the host and path options both needed to be set correctly.
The anystring string needed to be changed to apikey

Once I did these two things, the request worked as expected. Full code is below, just make sure to switch out APIKEY with your actual API key, and switch out us12 with your account's corresponding datacenter (found at the end of your API key).

"use strict";
/* globals require, console */
var http = require('http');


var options = {
    host: 'us12.api.mailchimp.com',
    path: '/3.0/',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'apikey APIKEY',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    }
};

http.get(options, (res) => {
  console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
  res.on('data', (chunk) => {
    console.log(`BODY: ${chunk}`);
  });
  // consume response body
  res.resume();
}).on('uncaughtException', function (err) { console.log(err); });

Node.js HTTP Get Request to Mailchimp Returns Error

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