HTTP Request

Zotero provides a set of APIs for making HTTP requests. The Zotero.HTTP object is used to make HTTP requests. It has the following important methods:

• request(method, url, options): makes an HTTP request.

Making a GET Request

const url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1";
const req = await Zotero.HTTP.request("GET", url);
Zotero.debug(req.status); // 200
Zotero.debug(req.statusText); // OK
Zotero.debug(req.response); // string

If you want to get the JSON response, pass the responseType option as json.

const url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1";
const req = await Zotero.HTTP.request("GET", url, { responseType: "json" });
Zotero.debug(req.response); // object

Making a POST Request

const url = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts";
const data = {
  title: "foo",
  body: "bar",
  userId: 1,
};
const req = await Zotero.HTTP.request("POST", url, {
  data,
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  responseType: "json",
});
Zotero.debug(req.status); // 201
Zotero.debug(req.statusText); // Created
Zotero.debug(req.response); // object