How do I ungzip (decompress) a NodeJS request's module gzip response body?

Question

How do I unzip a gzipped body in a request\'s module response?

I have tried several examples around the web but none of them appear to work.

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Answer 1

Here's a working example (using the request module for node) that gunzips the response

function gunzipJSON(response){

    var gunzip = zlib.createGunzip();
    var json = "";

    gunzip.on('data', function(data){
        json += data.toString();
    });

    gunzip.on('end', function(){
        parseJSON(json);
    });

    response.pipe(gunzip);
}

Full code: https://gist.github.com/0xPr0xy/5002984