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ViewsDownload files using url in javascript
I have multiple url's, pointing to different files. I want to be able to download them just by using the url string automatically with Javascript code, instead of manually going to the link and downloading them.
I have searched a lot of other answers on stackoverflow, few suggest creating an anchor tag in document body, but I am doing everything on backend not creating an index.html
edit: I am using next where for an api end point I am getting post requests, each which contains URL for a file which I have to download.
This is how I expect my POST request to come:
I want to be able to do something like this (in nextjs):
export default async function handler (req, res) {
if(req.method === "POST") {
let path = "./downloads/file"
await download(req.body.url, path)
}
}
Is the download function possible, if so please help me with the implementation or provide any helpful packages to do the same.
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Answer question0
You can use HTTP clients like Axios. It makes it easy to send async HTTP requests to REST endpoints and perform CRUD operations.
You can refer to the snippet below that I have used in my previous projects for file downloads. I guess this is what you are looking for:
const fs = require('fs')
const Path = require('path')
const axios = require('axios')
const crypto = require('crypto')
async function downloadFile(url) {
const uuid = crypto.randomUUID()
const path = Path.resolve("./utils", "uploads", uuid)
const writer = fs.createWriteStream(path)
const response = await axios({
url,
method: 'GET',
responseType: 'stream'
})
response.data.pipe(writer)
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
writer.on('error', reject)
response.data.on('end', () => {
resolve(uuid)
})
})
}
Hope this helps, and don't forget to check out their documentation. Here is the link.