Node.js https call github api

function getRepos(username, callback) {
  console.log("Making HTTPS request.");
  //Define options which define where/how to connect to the api
  var options = {
    "host": "api.github.com",
    "path": "/users/" + username + "/repos",
    "method": "GET"
  },// w  w  w .j  a v a  2s  .c o m
  repos = [];

  /* The https.request method makes a GET or POST request
  to the path specified in the options object and
  supplies the respnose to a callback function */
  var request = https.request(options, function(response) {
    var fullResponse = "";
    console.log("Aggregating response chunks.");
    response.on("data", function(responseChunk) {
      fullResponse += responseChunk.toString("utf8");
    });
    response.on("end", function() {
      console.log("Parsing relevant data from response.");
      //Parse the response and filter out only relevant data
      var parsedResponse = JSON.parse(fullResponse);
      parsedResponse.forEach(function(e, i, a) {
        repos.push({
          "name": e.name,
          "description": e.description
        });
      });

      callback(repos);
    });
  });

  //Finish defining request and send it
  console.log("Sending request.");
  request.end();
}

/*
This example shows how to integrate with the GitHub api
*/

console.log("Begin");

/*
The HTTPS module (http://nodejs.org/api/https.html)
makes a variety of https request-handling methods available to the server
*/
var https = require("https"),
  fs = require("fs"),
  username = "apress";

getRepos(username, function(repos) {
  console.log(repos);
});