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download-file-sync

1.0.4 • Public • Published

download-file-sync

Ever wanted to write a node script that just downloads a file synchronously? I'm sure you sometimes wish you worked on PHP and just used file_get_contents('url'). Yeah it's going to be slow, yeah it won't scale, but that doesn't matter for your little script.

How to use?

npm install download-file-sync --save

var downloadFileSync = require('download-file-sync');
var content = downloadFileSync('https://github.com/vjeux/download-file-sync');
// '<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"...'

That's it, now you can get back to writing awesome prototypes ;)

How does it work

Here's the full implementation:

module.exports = function(url) {
  return require('child_process')
    .execFileSync('curl', ['--silent', '-L', url], {encoding: 'utf8'});
}

As you can imagine, this is not web scale, but it works!

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    Install

    npm i download-file-sync

    Repository

    github.com/vjeux/download-file-sync

    Homepage

    github.com/vjeux/download-file-sync#readme

    Weekly Downloads

    4,554

    Version

    1.0.4

    License

    MIT

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    • vjeux
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