download

Download and extract files effortlessly in Node.js.

Getting started

Install with npm: npm install download

Examples

If you're fetching an archive you can set extract: true in options and it'll extract it for you.

var download = require('download');

// download and extract `foo.tar.gz` into `bar/`
download('foo.tar.gz', 'bar', { extract: true });

// download and save `foo.exe` into `bar/foo.exe` with mode `0755`
download('foo.exe', 'bar', { mode: '0755' });

// download and save an array of files in `bar/`
var files = ['foo.jpg', 'bar.jpg', 'cat.jpg'];
download(files, 'bar');

API

download(url, dest, opts)

Download a file or an array of files to a given destination. Returns an EventEmitter with three possible events — response, data and error.

Options

• extract — If set to true, try extracting the file using decompress
• mode — Set mode on the downloaded files
• strip — Equivalent to --strip-components for tar

You can also define options accepted by the request module.

License

MIT License (c) Kevin Mårtensson