Build a sample CURL - Node.js - HTML page (No PHP)

I'm working with a US Government website API system and the examples that they give are in CURL [login to view URL] I want to develop a web page where my users can put in a value such as Name and my web page will produce the results. This is a system for third party developers so it is 100% acceptable to get the data. At the bottom of the page are examples in both CURL and a request URL. I tried to use jQuery and Ajax to GET the URL but it throws errors so the next step is to use CURL which is server side. I have read the node.js works well with CURL so I'm open to use that also. I want a simple web page (No PHP) just a .html with a javascript example that fills a textarea with the returned response. Parsing the return value is a different project for a bit latter. I've added a file with a couple of CURL request that I would like to see run from the example that you produce. After you set this up on your system you need to tell me how to set this up on my system to run.