Force download of 'data:text/plain' URL

Question

I was wondering whether it is possible to force a browser (at least Chrome) to download a data:text/plain URL.

Chrome does download binary URLs (e.g.

Answer 1

Here is a pure Javascript solution for creating a text blob and download as text file

var fileContent = 'This is sample text file';
var fileName = 'sampleFile.txt';

const blob = new Blob([fileContent], { type: 'text/plain' });
const a = document.createElement('a');
a.setAttribute('download', fileName);
a.setAttribute('href', window.URL.createObjectURL(blob));
a.click();