Axios in node.js check url before executing code-CodePudding

I dont find anything that works for me so I ask here:

I am trying to get some data from a website with axios. It works great, but if I input the wrong URL I get an error. I want to check if the URL with its complete path to the page I desire exists.

I tried npm package url-exists but it just said the path didn't exist eventho it did.

Is there a simple way to check if a path like for example "https://github.com/enterprise" exists or if it doesn't?

CodePudding user response：

You have to make a request anyway to check if the url exists. So you can handle it when you got 404 status code in catch error block of axios function.

CodePudding user response：

The only way is making the request, you can handle this scenario using a try/catch block

const getSomething = async () => {
  try {
    const something = await axios.get("www.website.fake")
  } catch (err) {
    throw new Error(err)
  }
}

CodePudding user response：

Then you need to check your source code.