How would I do this AJAX in Node? - node.js

Question

I can write this Instagram API call using jQuery, but I'm not sure how to get Node and/or socket to do the same. Any help?
function getData(url){
$.ajax({
url: url,
dataType :"jsonp",
success: function(data){
console.log('success');
console.log(data);
}
});
}
var tag = "myTag";
var accessToken = "myAccessToken"
var url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/' + tag + '/media/recent?access_token=' + accessToken + '&callback=callBackFunction';
getData(url);

Answer 1

Another way to do this would be to use request module
var request = require('request');
request('your url',function(error,response,body){
//body will contain the response from the api endpoint.
});

Answer 2

This should work as you would like it to (adding some extra STATUS, HEADERS and BODY markers) :
var http = require('http');
var myhost = "https://api.instagram.com/";
var tag = "myTag";
var accessToken = "myAccessToken"
var myurl = tag + '/media/recent?access_token=' + accessToken + '&callback=callBackFunction';
var options = {
hostname: myhost,
port: 80,
path: myurl,
method: 'GET'
};
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
res.setEncoding('utf8');
res.on('data', function (chunk) {
console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
});
});