StackExchange API Node.js

read_SE_API.js

/**
 * Created by amills001c on 9/15/15.
 */


var url = 'http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/answers?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow';
var http = require("http");
var zlib = require("zlib");


function getGzipped(url, callback) {
    // buffer to store the streamed decompression
    var buffer = [];

    http.get(url, function (res) {
        // pipe the response into the gunzip to decompress
        var gunzip = zlib.createGunzip();
        res.pipe(gunzip);

        gunzip.on('data', function (data) {
            // decompression chunk ready, add it to the buffer
            buffer.push(data.toString())

        }).on("end", function () {
            // response and decompression complete, join the buffer and return
            callback(null, buffer.join(""));

        }).on("error", function (e) {
            callback(e);
        })
    }).on('error', function (e) {
        callback(e)
    });
}

getGzipped(url, function (err, data) {
    if(err){
        console.error(err);
    }
    else{
        console.log(data);
    }
});