How to download and unzip a zip file in memory in NodeJs?

Question

I want to download a zip file from the internet and unzip it in memory without saving to a temporary file. How can I do this?

Here is what I tried:

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Answer 1

Two days ago the module node-zip has been released, which is a wrapper for the JavaScript only version of Zip: JSZip.

var NodeZip = require('node-zip')
  , zip = new NodeZip(zipBuffer.toString("base64"), { base64: true })
  , unzipped = zip.files["your-text-file.txt"].data;