How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

If all you want to do is follow redirects but still want to use the built-in HTTP and HTTPS modules, I suggest you use https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects.

yarn add follow-redirects
npm install follow-redirects

All you need to do is replace:

var http = require('http');

with

var http = require('follow-redirects').http;

... and all your requests will automatically follow redirects.

With TypeScript you can also install the types

npm install @types/follow-redirects

and then use

import { http, https } from 'follow-redirects';

Disclosure: I wrote this module.

Is there a wrapper module on top of the http to more easily handle processing http responses from a node application?

request

Redirection logic in request

Update:

Now you can follow all redirects with var request = require('request'); using the followAllRedirects param.

request({
  followAllRedirects: true,
  url: url
}, function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error) {
    console.log(response);
  }
});