How to post form data using Axios in node - node.js

Question

EDIT Changing the title so that it might be helpful to others
I am trying to upload an image to imgbb using their api using Axios, but keep getting an error response Empty upload source.
The API docs for imgbb shows the following example:
curl --location --request POST "https://api.imgbb.com/1/upload?key=YOUR_CLIENT_API_KEY" --form "image=R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"
My node code to replicate this is:
const fs = require('fs')
const FormData = require('form-data')
const Axios = require('axios').default
let file = '/tmp/the-test.png'
let url = 'https://api.imgbb.com/1/upload?key=myapikey'
var bodyData = new FormData();
let b = fs.readFileSync(file, {encoding: 'base64'})
bodyData.append('image', b)
Axios({
method: 'post',
url: 'url',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data' },
data: {
image: bodyData
}
}).then((resolve) => {
console.log(resolve.data);
}).catch(error => console.log(error.response.data));
But I keep getting the following error response..
{
status_code: 400,
error: { message: 'Empty upload source.', code: 130, context: 'Exception' },
status_txt: 'Bad Request'
}
Not sure exactly where I am failing.
For the sake of completion and for others, how does the --location flag translate to an axios request?

Answer 1

The issue was in the headers. When using form-data, you have to make sure to pass the headers generated by it to Axios. Answer was found here
headers: bodyData.getHeaders()
Working code is:
const fs = require('fs');
const FormData = require('form-data');
const Axios = require('axios').default;
let file = '/tmp/the-test.png';
var bodyData = new FormData();
let b = fs.readFileSync(file, { encoding: 'base64' });
bodyData.append('image', b);
Axios({
method : 'post',
url : 'https://api.imgbb.com/1/upload?key=myapikey',
headers : bodyData.getHeaders(),
data : bodyData
})
.then((resolve) => {
console.log(resolve.data);
})
.catch((error) => console.log(error.response.data));