Respodning to GET request with ExpressJS then executing RequestJS request inside

Question

Currently I am just making a call to an API, specifically the Ticket Master Discovery API, and this returns a JSON object just fine:

//PACKAGES 
var express = require('express');
var request = require('request'); 
var router = express.Router(); 


request('https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/venues.json?keyword=UCV&apikey=' + apiKey, 
 function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body);
    return;// Print the google web page.
  } 
    else {
      console.log(error); 
  }

});

I would like to utilise ExpressJS's 'get' to respond to a get request and then make a 'request' call (as shown above) inside of that - is this possible or is my understanding incorrect? I've gone ahead and read the documentation, and understand each in their simplest of forms but I'm still struggling.

Thanks

Answer 1

Here's a basic example:

const express = require('express');
const request = require('request');

const app = express();

app.get('/', function(req, res) {

    request('https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/venues.json?keyword=UCV&apikey=' + apiKey, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            res.send(body);
        } 
        else {
            res.send(error);
        }
    });

})

app.listen(3000, function() {
    console.log('Server listening on 3000');
})

If you run this code and then browse to http://localhost:3000/ then you should see the ticketmaster.com response.