Learning Node.js Development

Making request to Geolocation API

The requests that we'll be making to that Geolocation API can actually be simulated over in the browser before we ever make the request in Node, and that's exactly what we want to do to get started. So follow along for the URL, https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json.

Now this is the actual endpoint URL, but we do have to specify the address for which we want the geocode. We'll do that using query strings, which will be provided right after the question mark. Then, we can set up a set of key value pairs and we can add multiples using the ampersand in the URL, for example: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?key=value&keytwo=valuetwo.

In our case, all we need is one query string address, ...