Weird characters in body after request response

Question

I am using NodeJS and Request to post JSON and get a result with data in it.

I set this request up with Postman and I get the JSON data back which is completely readabl

Answer 1

Most likely the data you're seeing is compressed (with gzip) since you are sending a header that says you are willing to accept such a response. Set gzip: true in your request() options and request should automatically decompress the body passed to your callback.

Or just remove the 'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br' line in your headers object to not request gzip compression.