An example making a secure GET request to the AngelList API, using Node.js. The results are written to a file. Invoke from the command line with: node angellist_get_request.js

angellist_get_request.js

var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');

var key_token = 'your_access_token'; // optional
var startup_id = '6702'; // AngelList

// options for GET
var optionsget = {
    host : 'api.angel.co',
    port : 443,
    // path : '/1/startups/' + startup_id, // no access_token    
    path : '/1/startups/' + startup_id + '?access_token=' + key_token,
    method : 'GET' // do GET
};

console.info('Options prepared:');
console.info(optionsget);
console.info('Do the GET call');

// do the GET request
var startupGet = https.request(optionsget, function(response) {
    var startupData = '';
    
    console.log("statusCode: ", response.statusCode);
    // uncomment it for header details
    // console.log("headers: ", response.headers);

    response.setEncoding('utf8');
    response.on('data', function(chunk) {
        startupData += chunk;        
    });

    response.on('end', function() {
        fs.writeFile('angellist_startup_' + startup_id + '.json', startupData, function (err) {
            if (err) throw err;
            console.log('It\'s saved!\n');
        });
    });
    

});

startupGet.end();
startupGet.on('error', function(e) {
    console.error(e);
});