node.js write http response to stream

Question

i\'m fetching some binary data over http. My code looks like:

var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream(fileName);
request(url, function(err, res) {
    res.soc         


        

Answer 1

I'm assuming that here request is from mikeal's request library rather than being an instance of http.request. In that case you can simply do request(url).pipe(writeStream);

Remember that for debugging purposes, you can always pipe to process.stdout.