Getting HTTP headers with Node.js

This sample code should work:

var http = require('http');
var options = {method: 'HEAD', host: 'stackoverflow.com', port: 80, path: '/'};
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(res.headers));
  }
);
req.end();

Here is my contribution, that deals with any URL using http or https, and use Promises.

const http = require('http')
const https = require('https')
const url = require('url')

function getHeaders(myURL) {
  const parsedURL = url.parse(myURL)
  const options = {
    protocol: parsedURL.protocol,
    hostname: parsedURL.hostname,
    method: 'HEAD',
    path: parsedURL.path
  }
  let protocolHandler = (parsedURL.protocol === 'https:' ? https : http)

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    let req = protocolHandler.request(options, (res) => {
      resolve(res.headers)
    })
    req.on('error', (e) => {
      reject(e)
    })
    req.end()
  })
}

getHeaders(myURL).then((headers) => {
  console.log(headers)
})

Using the excellent request module:

var request = require('request');
  request("http://stackoverflow.com", {method: 'HEAD'}, function (err, res, body){
  console.log(res.headers);
});

You can change the method to GET if you wish, but using HEAD will save you from getting the entire response body if you only wish to look at the headers.

Try to look at http.get and response headers.

var http = require("http");

var options = {
  host: 'stackoverflow.com',
  port: 80,
  path: '/'
};

http.get(options, function(res) {
  console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode);

  for(var item in res.headers) {
    console.log(item + ": " + res.headers[item]);
  }
}).on('error', function(e) {
  console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
});