Nodejs link that downloads file

Active 8 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 4k times. I guess it is just a simple question but I can't solve it on my own. How can I achieve my goal mentioned above? Improve this question. TorbenJ TorbenJ 4, 10 10 gold badges 41 41 silver badges 80 80 bronze badges. Got it to work: stackoverflow.

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Downloading a file is just one use of Node streams, you can find streams popping up all over the place. In this post we used a readable stream to download the file and a writable stream to write it to disk. You can also create readable streams of files and, if you are making POST requests with Got, you can stream the upload of data too.

Objects like process. For more on streams, check the Node. If you liked this post please share it or follow philnash on Twitter.

The content on this page has updated, refresh for the latest. I prefer request because you can use both http and https with it.

Looks like Request has been deprecated github. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time. Wai Ha Lee 7, 61 61 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 85 85 bronze badges. Idan Dagan Idan Dagan 7, 3 3 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Roman Podlinov Roman Podlinov Very clean, thank you. What do the flags 'wx' do when you're creating the writeStream? It is returning garbage character if file name is other than ascii like if filename is in japanese.

Do you think ajax-request is not a third party library? Download using promise, which resolve a readable stream. The questions was specific to not include third party modes : — David Gatti. If you are using express use res.

A 13k 4 4 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. Using the http2 Module I saw answers using the http , https , and request modules. I'd like to add one using yet another native NodeJS module that supports either the http or https protocol: Solution I've referenced the official NodeJS API, as well as some of the other answers on this question for something I'm doing. Rik Rik 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Is this backward compatible? Works everywhere or only for http2?

Neil I'm assuming you are asking if http2 is backward compatible with http1. Because http2 improves framing; adding binary compression, the ability to push from server to client, and simultaneous connections - it is absolutely required that both server and client know the implementation this allows abstraction of implementation from the application too.

Good news is that all major browsers have supported http2 since about - and Node as a client does too. Node, Nginx, and Apache offer it server side - so most use cases are covered. Its a vast improvement. Thanks for the reply Rik — Neil.

Without library it could be buggy just to point out. Here my suggestion: Call system tool like wget or curl use some tool like node-wget-promise which also very simple to use. Geng Jiawen Geng Jiawen 7, 2 2 gold badges 41 41 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges.

Writing my own solution since the existing didn't fit my requirements. Alex Pilugin Alex Pilugin 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Pankaj Pankaj 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

Frankenmint Frankenmint 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Built-in modules Node. You might also like How to terminate a Node.