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copied!<p>Thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11647656/getting-bad-request-invalid-json-error-when-trying-to-insert-document-into-co#answer-11649320"><code>Ruben Verborgh</code></a>, I compiled micro-tutorial from several sources myself.</p> <pre><code>var http = require('http') var sys = require('sys') var couchdbPath = 'http://localhost:5984/' request = require('request') h = {accept: 'application/json', 'content-type': 'application/json'} request( {uri: couchdbPath + '_all_dbs', headers:h}, function(err, response, body) { console.log(sys.inspect(JSON.parse(body))); } ) // add database request( {uri: couchdbPath + 'dbname', method:'PUT', headers:h}, function (err, response, body) { if (err) throw err; if (response.statusCode !== 201) throw new Error("Could not create database. " + body); } ) // Modify existing document var options = { host: "localhost", port: 5984, path: "/dbname", headers: {"content-type": "application/json"}, method: "PUT" }; var req = http.request(options, function(res) { console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode); //console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers)); res.setEncoding('utf8'); res.on('data', function (chunk) { console.log('BODY: ' + chunk); }); }); req.on('error', function(e) { console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message); }); // write data to request body req.write(JSON.stringify({ "_id":"rabbit", "_rev":"4-8cee219da7e61616b7ab22c3614b9526", "Subject":"I like Plankton" })); req.end(); </code></pre> <p>I used following documentation:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>http.request()</code></a> </li> <li><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Complete_HTTP_API_Reference" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CouchDB Complete HTTP API Reference</a> </li> </ul>

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