https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser
Node.js body parsing middleware.
Parse incoming request bodies in a middleware before your handlers, available under the req.body
property.
Learn about the anatomy of an HTTP transaction in Node.js.
This does not handle multipart bodies, due to their complex and typically large nature. For multipart bodies, you may be interested in the following modules:
This module provides the following parsers:
Other body parsers you might be interested in:
$ npm install body-parser
var bodyParser =
The bodyParser
object exposes various factories to create middlewares. All middlewares will populate the req.body
property with the parsed body when the Content-Type
request header matches the type
option, or an empty object ({}
) if there was no body to parse, the Content-Type
was not matched, or an error occurred.
The various errors returned by this module are described in the errors section.
Returns middleware that only parses json
and only looks at requests where the Content-Type
header matches the type
option. This parser accepts any Unicode encoding of the body and supports automatic inflation of gzip
and deflate
encodings.
A new body
object containing the parsed data is populated on the request
object after the middleware (i.e. req.body
).
The json
function takes an optional options
object that may contain any of the following keys:
When set to true
, then deflated (compressed) bodies will be inflated; when false
, deflated bodies are rejected. Defaults to true
.
Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'
.
The reviver
option is passed directly to JSON.parse
as the second argument. You can find more information on this argument in the MDN documentation about JSON.parse.
When set to true
, will only accept arrays and objects; when false
will accept anything JSON.parse
accepts. Defaults to true
.
The type
option is used to determine what media type the middleware will parse. This option can be a function or a string. If a string, type
option is passed directly to the type-is library and this can be an extension name (like json
), a mime type (like application/json
), or a mime type with a wildcard (like */*
or */json
). If a function, the type
option is called as fn(req)
and the request is parsed if it returns a truthy value. Defaults to application/json
.
The verify
option, if supplied, is called as verify(req, res, buf, encoding)
, where buf
is a Buffer
of the raw request body and encoding
is the encoding of the request. The parsing can be aborted by throwing an error.
Returns middleware that parses all bodies as a Buffer
and only looks at requests where the Content-Type
header matches the type
option. This parser supports automatic inflation of gzip
and deflate
encodings.
A new body
object containing the parsed data is populated on the request
object after the middleware (i.e. req.body
). This will be a Buffer
object of the body.
The raw
function takes an optional options
object that may contain any of the following keys:
When set to true
, then deflated (compressed) bodies will be inflated; when false
, deflated bodies are rejected. Defaults to true
.
Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'
.
The type
option is used to determine what media type the middleware will parse. This option can be a function or a string. If a string, type
option is passed directly to the type-is library and this can be an extension name (like bin
), a mime type (like application/octet-stream
), or a mime type with a wildcard (like */*
or application/*
). If a function, the type
option is called as fn(req)
and the request is parsed if it returns a truthy value. Defaults to application/octet-stream
.
The verify
option, if supplied, is called as verify(req, res, buf, encoding)
, where buf
is a Buffer
of the raw request body and encoding
is the encoding of the request. The parsing can be aborted by throwing an error.
Returns middleware that parses all bodies as a string and only looks at requests where the Content-Type
header matches the type
option. This parser supports automatic inflation of gzip
and deflate
encodings.
A new body
string containing the parsed data is populated on the request
object after the middleware (i.e. req.body
). This will be a string of the body.
The text
function takes an optional options
object that may contain any of the following keys:
Specify the default character set for the text content if the charset is not specified in the Content-Type
header of the request. Defaults to utf-8
.
When set to true
, then deflated (compressed) bodies will be inflated; when false
, deflated bodies are rejected. Defaults to true
.
Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'
.
The type
option is used to determine what media type the middleware will parse. This option can be a function or a string. If a string, type
option is passed directly to the type-is library and this can be an extension name (like txt
), a mime type (like text/plain
), or a mime type with a wildcard (like */*
or text/*
). If a function, the type
option is called as fn(req)
and the request is parsed if it returns a truthy value. Defaults to text/plain
.
The verify
option, if supplied, is called as verify(req, res, buf, encoding)
, where buf
is a Buffer
of the raw request body and encoding
is the encoding of the request. The parsing can be aborted by throwing an error.
Returns middleware that only parses urlencoded
bodies and only looks at requests where the Content-Type
header matches the type
option. This parser accepts only UTF-8 encoding of the body and supports automatic inflation of gzip
and deflate
encodings.
A new body
object containing the parsed data is populated on the request
object after the middleware (i.e. req.body
). This object will contain key-value pairs, where the value can be a string or array (when extended
is false
), or any type (when extended
is true
).
The urlencoded
function takes an optional options
object that may contain any of the following keys:
The extended
option allows to choose between parsing the URL-encoded data with the querystring
library (when false
) or the qs
library (when true
). The "extended" syntax allows for rich objects and arrays to be encoded into the URL-encoded format, allowing for a JSON-like experience with URL-encoded. For more information, please see the qs library.
Defaults to true
, but using the default has been deprecated. Please research into the difference between qs
and querystring
and choose the appropriate setting.
When set to true
, then deflated (compressed) bodies will be inflated; when false
, deflated bodies are rejected. Defaults to true
.
Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'
.
The parameterLimit
option controls the maximum number of parameters that are allowed in the URL-encoded data. If a request contains more parameters than this value, a 413 will be returned to the client. Defaults to 1000
.
The type
option is used to determine what media type the middleware will parse. This option can be a function or a string. If a string, type
option is passed directly to the type-is library and this can be an extension name (like urlencoded
), a mime type (like application/x-www-form-urlencoded
), or a mime type with a wildcard (like */x-www-form-urlencoded
). If a function, the type
option is called as fn(req)
and the request is parsed if it returns a truthy value. Defaults to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
.
The verify
option, if supplied, is called as verify(req, res, buf, encoding)
, where buf
is a Buffer
of the raw request body and encoding
is the encoding of the request. The parsing can be aborted by throwing an error.
The middlewares provided by this module create errors depending on the error condition during parsing. The errors will typically have a status
/statusCode
property that contains the suggested HTTP response code, an expose
property to determine if the message
property should be displayed to the client, a type
property to determine the type of error without matching against the message
, and a body
property containing the read body, if available.
The following are the common errors emitted, though any error can come through for various reasons.
This error will occur when the request had a Content-Encoding
header that contained an encoding but the "inflation" option was set to false
. The status
property is set to 415
, the type
property is set to 'encoding.unsupported'
, and the charset
property will be set to the encoding that is unsupported.
This error will occur when the request is aborted by the client before reading the body has finished. The received
property will be set to the number of bytes received before the request was aborted and the expected
property is set to the number of expected bytes. The status
property is set to 400
and type
property is set to 'request.aborted'
.
This error will occur when the request body's size is larger than the "limit" option. The limit
property will be set to the byte limit and the length
property will be set to the request body's length. The status
property is set to 413
and the type
property is set to 'entity.too.large'
.
This error will occur when the request's length did not match the length from the Content-Length
header. This typically occurs when the request is malformed, typically when the Content-Length
header was calculated based on characters instead of bytes. The status
property is set to 400
and the type
property is set to 'request.size.invalid'
.
This error will occur when something called the req.setEncoding
method prior to this middleware. This module operates directly on bytes only and you cannot call req.setEncoding
when using this module. The status
property is set to 500
and the type
property is set to 'stream.encoding.set'
.
This error will occur when the content of the request exceeds the configured parameterLimit
for the urlencoded
parser. The status
property is set to 413
and the type
property is set to 'parameters.too.many'
.
This error will occur when the request had a charset parameter in the Content-Type
header, but the iconv-lite
module does not support it OR the parser does not support it. The charset is contained in the message as well as in the charset
property. The status
property is set to 415
, the type
property is set to 'charset.unsupported'
, and the charset
property is set to the charset that is unsupported.
This error will occur when the request had a Content-Encoding
header that contained an unsupported encoding. The encoding is contained in the message as well as in the encoding
property. The status
property is set to 415
, the type
property is set to 'encoding.unsupported'
, and the encoding
property is set to the encoding that is unsupported.
This example demonstrates adding a generic JSON and URL-encoded parser as a top-level middleware, which will parse the bodies of all incoming requests. This is the simplest setup.
var express = var bodyParser = var app = // parse application/x-www-form-urlencodedapp // parse application/jsonapp app
This example demonstrates adding body parsers specifically to the routes that need them. In general, this is the most recommended way to use body-parser with Express.
var express = var bodyParser = var app = // create application/json parservar jsonParser = bodyParser // create application/x-www-form-urlencoded parservar urlencodedParser = bodyParser // POST /login gets urlencoded bodiesapp // POST /api/users gets JSON bodiesapp
All the parsers accept a type
option which allows you to change the Content-Type
that the middleware will parse.
var express = var bodyParser = var app = // parse various different custom JSON types as JSONapp // parse some custom thing into a Bufferapp // parse an HTML body into a stringapp