How to Store an respone into a variable nodejs request module

Question

I am trying to store the response of an http request made using nodejs by request module but the problem is I can't acsess it after the request is completed in more details we can say after the callback

How I can add it

Here is what I tried till now

Tried to use var instead of let Tried passing it to a function so that i can use it later but no luck

Here is my code can anyone help actually new to nodejs that's why maybe a noob question

var request = require('request')
var response

  function sort(body) {
    for (var i = 0; i < body.length; i++) {
      body[i] = body[i].replace("\r", "");
    }
      response = body
      return response
  }

  request.get(
    "https://api.proxyscrape.com/?request=getproxies&proxytype=http&timeout=10000&country=all&ssl=all&anonymity=all",
    (err, res, body) => {
      if (err) {
        return console.log(err);
      }
      body = body.split("\n");
      sort(body);
    }
  );

console.log(response)

In this I am fetching up the proxies from this api and trying to store them in a variable called as response

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 02 '20 at 21:52

var request = require("request");
var response;

async function sort(body) {
  await body.split("\n");
  response = await body;
  console.log(response); // this console log show you after function process is done. 
  return response;
}

request.get(
  "https://api.proxyscrape.com/?request=getproxies&proxytype=http&timeout=10000&country=all&ssl=all&anonymity=all",
  (err, res, body) => {
    if (err) {
      return console.log(err);
    }

    sort(body);
  }
);

// console.log(response); //This console log runs before the function still on process, so that's why it gives you undefined.

Try this code it works fine I just tested.
put the console log inside the function so you can see the result.
The console.log that you put actually runs before you process the data so that's why you are getting "undefined".
Actually, you will get the data after the sort Function is done processing.

How to Store an respone into a variable nodejs request module

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