Make Curl request using axios

Question

I was going through the facebook docs and their they have used curl for making api calls

curl -G \
-d "fields=name" \
-d "access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/ads"

I have heard previously about the curl but never used it before

Now, I am big on axios, and I am thinking that this would be similar to restful api calls.

So to get the data from the given above snippet, I would need to make a get request since in the above snippet it says?

curl -G \

Secondly the given url is

"https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/ads"

So axios equivalent would be

axios.get("https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/ads")

and then -d i am guessing is for data? so my api request should look something like this?

axios.get("https://graph.facebook.com/<API_VERSION>/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/ads"
  ,data: {
     fields: "something",
      access_token:"8e8e8ee08e0e"  
    }
)

Can someone confirm that what I am doing is correct or not?

Are you wanting to run the JavaScript in a browser or via Node? — Phil, Feb 24 '19 at 23:10
@Phil via browser but is there a difference when making request via axios from node or javascript. — Alwaysblue, Feb 24 '19 at 23:27
Cross-domain requests come with their own set of challenges. See [Same origin Policy and CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14681292/same-origin-policy-and-cors-cross-origin-resource-sharing) — Phil, Feb 24 '19 at 23:29

Phil · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-25T00:16:00.947

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You're almost there...

Typically, using the -d option in curl forces a POST request with the -d values encoded into the request body. Setting the -G option forces a GET request with those data parameters encoded into the URL query parameters.

-G, --get
When used, this option will make all data specified with -d, --data, --data-binary or --data-urlencode to be used in an HTTP GET request instead of the POST request that otherwise would be used. The data will be appended to the URL with a '?' separator.

Axios separates query parameters into the params object, so you should use that instead of data.

axios.get(`https://graph.facebook.com/${apiVersion}/act_${adAccountId}/ads`, {
  params: {
    fields: "something",
    access_token:"8e8e8ee08e0e"  
  }
})

edited Feb 25 '19 at 00:16

answered Feb 24 '19 at 23:06

Phil

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@phill what does -f stands for? -F 'name=My Ad Set'? this is from following facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/buying-api – Alwaysblue Feb 26 '19 at 05:40
@anny123 not sure what you mean, that doesn't appear anywhere in my answer. If you're asking about the general use of `curl`, there's plenty of documentation available ~ https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-F – Phil Feb 26 '19 at 05:42

Make Curl request using axios

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