Receive-file

Download file streaming function, with content length checking (RFC2616) and support for loopback redirects. Supports HTTP/1.1 statuses according to RFC7231, as well as status 308 (RFC7538).

REQUIRES

• fs
• url
• http
• https
• path

Install

npm install receive-file

USAGE

var Download = require('receive-file')
 
var url = "http://ftp.byfly.by/test/10mb.txt"
 
var options = {
    directory: "./test/",
    filename: "10mb.txt",
    timeout: 100000
}
 
Download(url, options, function(err, path){
    if(err){
        console.error(err);
    } else {
        console.log(path);
    }
});

Download(url, options).then((path) => { console.log(path); }).catch((err) => { console.error(err); });

API

download(url, [options], callback(err, path))

• url string of the file URL to download
• options object with options
  • directory string with path to directory where to save files (default: current working directory)
  • filename string for the name of the file to be saved as (default: filename in the url)
  • timeout integer of how long in ms to wait while downloading (default: 20000)
• callback function to run after. if not set, promise will be returned