Empty body in a response when using request - node.js

Question

I have the following code:
var request = require('request');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var URL = require('url')
var fs = require('fs')
fs.readFile("urls.txt", 'utf8', function(err, data) {
if (err) throw err;
var urls = data.split('\n');
urls = urls.filter(function(n){return n});
for(var i in urls) {
request(urls[i], function(err, resp, body) {
if (err)
throw err;
$ = cheerio.load(body,{lowerCaseTags: true, xmlMode: true});
$('item').each(function(){
console.log("----------");
console.log($(this).find('title').text());
console.log($(this).find('link').text());
console.log($(this).find('pubDate').text());
});
}).end();
}
});
and from the urls.txt file I only have the following url:
http://www.visir.is/section/?Template=rss&mime=xml
When I use wget on that url I get a response which looks like an rss feed but when I do it in the code above the body is empty. Can someone explain to me why and how can I fix this?

Answer 1

Update: Simply removing .end() from your original script works. end() terminates the script on callback. IMO, in 2016, I'd definitely choose Request over Needle.
Request is an odd bird, and why it's not working in your case it's giving no information in the response at all.
Try with Needle instead:
var needle = require('needle');
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var URL = require('url')
var fs = require('fs')
fs.readFile("urls.txt", 'utf8', function(err, data) {
if (err) throw err;
var urls = data.split('\n');
urls = urls.filter(function(n){return n});
for(var i in urls) {
needle.get(urls[i], function(err, resp, body) {
if (err)
throw err;
$ = cheerio.load(body,{lowerCaseTags: true, xmlMode: true});
$('item').each(function(){
console.log("----------");
console.log($(this).find('title').text());
console.log($(this).find('link').text());
console.log($(this).find('pubDate').text());
});
});
}
});