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How to print object in Node JS

In the below code (running on Node JS) I am trying to print an object obtained from an external API using JSON.stringify which results in an error:

TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

I have looked at the questions on this topic, but none could help. Could some one please suggest:

a) How I could obtain country value from the res object ?

b) How I could print the entire object itself ?

  http.get('http://ip-api.com/json', (res) => {     
    console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
    console.log(res.country)  // *** Results in Undefined
    console.log(JSON.stringify(res)); // *** Resulting in a TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

    res.resume();
  }).on('error', (e) => {
    console.log(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
  });

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Answer

By using the http request client, I am able to print the JSON object as well as print the country value. Below is my updated code.

var request = require('request');
request('http://ip-api.com/json', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(response.body);    // Prints the JSON object
    var object = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(object['country']) // Prints the country value from the JSON object
  }
});
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