partial-load

Download part of a file.

Installation

$ yarn add partial-load
 
# Or, 
 
$ npm install partial-load --save

Usage

const partialDownload = require('partial-load')
 
const url = 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.webm'
const megabyte = 1024 * 1024
 
// stop loading once 1MB has been exceeded
partialDownload(url, './output/file.webm', megabyte)
  .then((bytes) => console.log('Downloaded ', bytes, ' bytes!'))

API

partialLoad(url, output, byteLimit)

Returns of a Promise which resolves to the number of loaded bytes.

url

Type: String

The url of the file.

output

Type: String

The file path of the output, assumes directory exists.

byteLimit

Type: Number

The byte limit threshold; the load will stop once the byte limit has been exceeded.