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Asked: December 22, 20212021-12-22T10:54:05+00:00 2021-12-22T10:54:05+00:00

Node.js getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

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When using Node.js to try and get the html content of the following web page:

eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary

I get the following error:

events.js:72
    throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
          ^
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND
    at errnoException (dns.js:37:11)
    at Object.onanswer [as oncomplete] (dns.js:124:16)

I did already look up this error on stackoverflow, and realized that this is because node.js cannot find the server from DNS (I think). However, I am not sure why this would be, as my code works perfectly on www.google.com.

Here is my code (practically copied and pasted from a very similar question, except with the host changed):

var http = require("http");

var options = {
    host: 'eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary'
};

http.get(options, function (http_res) {
    // initialize the container for our data
    var data = "";

    // this event fires many times, each time collecting another piece of the response
    http_res.on("data", function (chunk) {
        // append this chunk to our growing `data` var
        data += chunk;
    });

    // this event fires *one* time, after all the `data` events/chunks have been gathered
    http_res.on("end", function () {
        // you can use res.send instead of console.log to output via express
        console.log(data);
    });
});

Here is the source where I copied and pasted from : How to make web service calls in Expressjs?

I am not using any modules with node.js.

Thanks for reading.

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  1. Alek Richter Enlightened
    2021-12-22T10:54:29+00:00Added an answer on December 22, 2021 at 10:54 am

    In Node.js HTTP module’s documentation: http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback

    You can either call http.get('http://eternagame.wikia.com/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary', callback), the URL is then parsed with url.parse(); or call http.get(options, callback), where options is

    {
      host: 'eternagame.wikia.com',
      port: 8080,
      path: '/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary'
    }
    

    Update

    As stated in the comment by @EnchanterIO, the port field is also a separate option; and the protocol http:// shouldn’t be included in the host field. Other answers also recommends the use of https module if SSL is required.

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