External API Call Using Express - api

Question

I'm trying to call a College Score Card API using Express and Request. When I search for a specific school, I receive results from several schools, but not the school I searched for. Here is part of my code:
var fields = '_fields=school.name,2013.aid.median_debt.completers.overall,2013.repayment.1_yr_repayment.completers,2013.earnings.10_yrs_after_entry.working_not_enrolled.mean_earnings&page=100';
var requestUrl = 'https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1/schools.json?api_key=' + apiKey + '&' + fields;
module.exports = function(app) {
app.get('/school', function(req, res, next) {
request(requestUrl, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
var json = JSON.parse(body);
console.log(json);
} else {
console.log("There was an error: ") + response.statusCode;
console.log(body);
}
});
})
};
HTML:
<form action="/school" method="GET">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="school_name" value="" id="enter_text">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" id="text-enter- button">Submit</button>
</form>

Answer 1

You need to incorporate the school name into the URL. From your form that is set for method=GET, the name will come in req.query.school_name. So, instead of just sending the request to requestUrl, you send it to:
requestUrl + "&school_name=" + req.query.school_name
which will add this onto the end of the URL:
&school_name=Pepperdine
Or, put into your code, it would look like this:
module.exports = function(app) {
app.get('/school', function(req, res, next) {
request(requestUrl + "&school_name=" + req.query.school_name, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
var json = JSON.parse(body);
console.log(json);
res.send(...); // send some response here
} else {
console.log("There was an error: ") + response.statusCode;
console.log(body);
res.send(...) // send some response here
}
});
})
};