send Content-Type: application/json post with node.js

Mikeal's request module can do this easily:

var request = require('request');var options = {  uri: 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url',  method: 'POST',  json: {    "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"  }};request(options, function (error, response, body) {  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {    console.log(body.id) // Print the shortened url.  }});

Simple Example

var request = require('request');//Custom Header passvar headersOpt = {      "content-type": "application/json",};request(        {        method:'post',        url:'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url',         form: {name:'hello',age:25},         headers: headersOpt,        json: true,    }, function (error, response, body) {          //Print the Response        console.log(body);  }); 

As the official documentation says:

body - entity body for PATCH, POST and PUT requests. Must be a Buffer, String or ReadStream. If json is true, then body must be a JSON-serializable object.

When sending JSON you just have to put it in body of the option.

var options = {    uri: 'https://myurl.com',    method: 'POST',    json: true,    body: {'my_date' : 'json'}}request(options, myCallback)