Post params not able to grab from postman + node js

Question

I have the following code in my routes file:

router.post('/submit', function(req, res) {
    var email = req.body.email;
    console.log(email);
});

I am making a post call from postman with following details: http://localhost:3000/login/submit

params:

email=abcxyz@gmail.com

and headers i have tried both

Content-Type:application/json

and

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Also, I have body parser separately installed with following in app.js

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

But, The console log for email shows 'undefined'. Why am i not able to grab the post params with req.body.email.

In body option what do you choose? form-data, x-www-form-urlencoded, raw or binary? — Akshay Kumar, Dec 22 '16 at 12:36
R u able to hit your api with this call http://localhost:3000/login/submit ? — Simran, Dec 22 '16 at 12:37
You are creating a post route for '/submit' in node app and trying to hit http://localhost:3000/login/submit using postman. Is this correct? — viren Kalkhudiya, Dec 22 '16 at 12:37

Adiii · Answer 1 · 2016-12-22T13:02:42.753

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In my case

http://127.0.0.1:3000/submit

router.post('/submit', function(req, res) {
console.log("Your Email is "+req.body.email);
res.end(); // if you not end the response it will hanging...

set your header type only

Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Body

Console output

edited Dec 22 '16 at 13:02

answered Dec 22 '16 at 12:56

Adiii

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 30 '18 at 10:08

I faced the similar issue and got it working, please follow the below steps

In Headers tab put content type as below

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

In Body tab select x-www-form-urlencoded checkbox and put params.

email=abcxyz@gmail.com

Now in your node app use below code

router.post('/submit', function(req, res) {
    var email = req.body.email;
    console.log(email);
});

Goutam Ghosh · Answer 3 · 2018-12-03T11:23:18.983

    [let express = require('express');
    let app = express();

    // For POST-Support
    let bodyParser = require('body-parser');
    let multer = require('multer');
    let upload = multer();

    app.use(bodyParser.json());
    app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

    app.post('/api/sayHello', upload.array(), (request, response) => {
        let a = request.body.a;
        let b = request.body.b;


        let c = parseInt(a) + parseInt(b);
        response.send('Result : '+c);
        console.log('Result : '+c);
    });

    app.listen(3000);

Please see the below example in the link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41955103/cant-get-post-data-using-nodejs-expressjs-and-postman/53514520#53514520

This will help you][1]

Set Body

Set Content-type

Ok sure. I will add the answer. Thanks – Goutam Ghosh Dec 03 '18 at 11:15 — Goutam Ghosh, Dec 03 '18 at 11:15

Post params not able to grab from postman + node js

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