parse-body

A simple body parsing function for node.js

Installation

npm install parse-body

Example

const parseBody = require('parse-body');

parseBody(req, 1e6, function(err, body) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);

  console.log(body); // {somekey: 'somedata'}
});

Methodology

Handles standard form-urlencoded and json POST requests. Does not handle multipart/form data.

Detects content type via Content-Type HTTP header. If there is no Content-Type header, assumes payload is a Buffer and converts it to a string.

Test

npm test

To run tests in dev mode (so you can see the console.logs) run

npm run dev-test

API

parseBody(req, limit, callback)

Params

req {Object} Usual node request object.
limit {Number} The max size of the POST body in bytes.
callback {Function} Called with the parsed POST body on success.

License

MIT