An example of how to call the Wordnik API in Node.js

getRandomWords.js

var Client = require('node-rest-client').Client;

var APIKEY = '';

// Create a full configuration object
// See http://developer.wordnik.com/docs.html
var config = {
	hasDictionaryDef: false,
	includePartOfSpeech: "verb-transitive",
	minCorpusCount: 0,
	maxCorpusCount: -1,
	minDictionaryCount: 1,
	maxDictionaryCount: -1,
	minLength: 5,
	maxLength: -1,
	limit: 2,
	api_key: APIKEY
};

function getRandomWords(config) {
  // Create a new Client object
  var client = new Client();

  // Start to build the URL
  var wordnikURL = 'http://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/randomWords?';

  // Parse the configuraiton object and create the request URL
  for(var option in config) {
  	wordnikURL = wordnikURL + "&" + option + "=" + config[option];
  }

  // Make sure we are asking for JSON
  var args = {headers: {'Accept':'application/json'}};

  // Create the GET request
  client.get(wordnikURL, args, function (data, response) {
    // Once the statusCode is 200, the response has been received with no problems
    if (response.statusCode === 200) {

      // Parse the JSON received as the response
      var result = JSON.parse(data);

      // "result" will have the object created from the parsed JSON
      console.log(result);
    } 
  });
};

// Finally, actually call the function with the configuration object
getRandomWords(config);