formData-example.md

Yoink: https://www.javascripttutorial.net/web-apis/javascript-formdata/ customized for https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm

const btn = document.querySelector('.col-sm-offset-2 > button:nth-child(1)');
const form = document.querySelector('div.panel-body:nth-child(1) > form:nth-child(1)');

btn.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
    // prevent the form from submitting
    // or uncomment the debugger statment below for a breakpoint  
    //   if needing to also send the data for testing 
    e.preventDefault();

    // show the form values
    const formData = new FormData(form);
    const values = [...formData.entries()];
    console.log(values);
  
    // comment out the preventDefault and uncomment below to sue breakpoints instead
    // debugger;
});

// Results in:
// [
//   [
//     "rptname",
//     "2"
//   ],
//   [
//     "reportSelectMonth",
//     "10"
//   ],
//   [
//     "reportSelectYear",
//     "2023"
//   ]
// ]

let form = new FormData();
form.append("rptname", "2")
form.append("reportSelectMonth", "10")
form.append("reportSelectYear", "2023")
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("POST", "https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=reportsSearch.process")
request.send(form)

Copy as cURL:

curl 'https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=reportsSearch.process' \
  --compressed \
  -X POST \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' \
  -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------17168440862677627000709725407' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H 'TE: trailers' \
  --data-binary $'-----------------------------17168440862677627000709725407\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="rptname"\r\n\r\n2\r\n-----------------------------17168440862677627000709725407\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="reportSelectMonth"\r\n\r\n10\r\n-----------------------------17168440862677627000709725407\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="reportSelectYear"\r\n\r\n2023\r\n-----------------------------17168440862677627000709725407--\r\n'