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JavaScript Node.js Basics Building a Command Line Application Requesting data with https

Issue with code

Hey there

Am running through some refresher courses and think there is a problem with how this project is setup. I'm following the code as is and two issues: 1 - the profile for "csalgado" as in the video seems to be down completely when I try and visit the URL 2 - when replacing the profile url with my own profile I get a 302 error.

I can see a tech report response from 2 years ago explaining that the URLs were migrated without the json response. Was this ever updated?

This is my code, for reference:

const https = require("https"); function getProfile() { // Connect to the API url (https://teamtreehouse.com/profiles/csalgado.json) const request = https.get( "https://teamtreehouse.com/profiles/csalgado.json", (response) => { console.dir(response.statusCode); } ); } //Read the data

//Parse the data

// Print the data

getProfile();

I've tried this both with and without the /profiles/ in the URL. I can see the JSON response by visiting the page, so all I can assume here is that something has changed? Not sure what else I could be doing wrong here

Thanks

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

Apparently, "csalgado" is no longer a user in the Treehouse system. And your own profile is set to be private in the privacy settings, so the system will not respond to a profile request.

Try using any currently valid user with a public profile instead (like mine, for example).