Why await is not working for node request module?

You should only await on something that returns a Promise. I would definitely recommend reading up on Promises before you start working with async and await. You can probably get this example to work by creating your own wrapper function around request to make it return a promise, like so:

function doRequest(url) { return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) { request(url, function (error, res, body) { if (!error && res.statusCode === 200) { resolve(body); } else { reject(error); } }); }); } // Usage: async function main() { try { let response = await doRequest(url); console.log(response); // `response` will be whatever you passed to `resolve()` at the top } catch (error) { console.error(error); // `error` will be whatever you passed to `reject()` at the top } } main(); 

Edit: Alternatively, you can look into using a promise-based request library instead of the regular request module.

As @saadq says you can only 'await' functions returning Promise.

I like using Node.js's util package to promisify a function with callback. So util + request can be used like that:

const util = require('util') const request = require("request"); const requestPromise = util.promisify(request); const response = await requestPromise(url); console.log('response', response.body); 

Demo: https://runkit.com/mhmtztmr/node-js-request-with-async-await

ES6

Usage: Where request is require('./await-request')

const init = async () => { try { const result = await request({ uri: 'statdirectory/exchange?json', baseUrl: 'https://bank.gov.ua/NBUStatService/v1/', json: true }) console.log(result) } catch (err) { console.error(err) } } 

Code:

// await-request.js const request = require('request') module.exports = async (value) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => { request(value, (error, response, data) => { if(error) reject(error) else resolve(data) }) }) 

Try with the following NPM package

node-fetch

 var url = "http://www.google.com"; try { const response = await fetch(url); const json = await response.json(); return {message:json.message,status:json.type}; } catch(error) { console.log(error); } 

Hope it works.

need to add await to the response.json() because response.json() is promise

( async function(){ const{default:fetch} = await import('node-fetch'); try { response = await fetch('https://datausa.io/api/data?drilldowns=Nation&measures=Population') ; console.log(await response.json()) } catch (err) { console.log('Http error', err); } })()