How to do Axios request from Firebase Cloud Function

Question

I\'ve tried the following in Firebase Cloud Function to do an Axios request but it didn\'t work.

    const functions = require(\'firebase-functions\');
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Answer 1

I experienced the same issue. An HTTP request with axios returns the following error message : TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

Here is an explanation of what is going on and how to get around this

You can use the following package : https://github.com/moll/json-stringify-safe

I'm not sure about the consistency of this approach and personally went for request-promise, which is heavier than axios but allows straightforward HTTP requests.