I have an alert in tradingview that send a webhook with a request to my server with a plain body that has some info. the webhook sends PLAIN TEXT, It doecnt sends JSON data.
I was wondering if there is any way to get that plain text data
This is the JSON webhook
Then this is the code that I have
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.post('/webhook', (req, res) => {
})
app.listen(8080, () => {console.log("listening on port 8080")})
You need to use body parsing middleware.
Your question isn't clear whether the webhook is plain text or JSON. If plain text:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.text());
app.post('/webhook', (req, res) => {
console.log(req.body); // If the request has Content-Type text/plain, the body will be parsed as text.
})
app.listen(8080, () => {console.log("listening on port 8080")});
If JSON:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());
app.post('/webhook', (req, res) => {
console.log(req.body); // If the request has Content-Type application/json, the body will be parsed as JSON.
})
app.listen(8080, () => {console.log("listening on port 8080")});
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.json({limit: '10mb'}));
app.post('/webhook', (req, res) => {
const { psw, message } = req.body
})
app.listen(8080, () => {console.log("listening on port 8080")})
this way you can extract body in post request.
UPDATE: The body-parser middleware is deprecated. The answer provided by @Aurast would be the right way to use the middleware with express.
You need to add a middleware to parse and extract the body of the HTTP request.
You can install the body-parser middleware:
$ npm install body-parser
And then use it as follows:
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.text())
Please see this for more information: http://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/body-parser.html
