How to chain write stream, immediately with a read stream in Node.js 0.10?

Question

The following line will download an image file from a specified url variable:

var filename = path.join(__dirname, url.replace(/^.*[\\\\\\/]/, \'         


        

Answer 1

request(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename)).pipe(writestream);

is the same as this:

var fileStream = fs.createWriteStream(filename);
request(url).pipe(fileStream);
fileStream.pipe(writestream);

So the issue is that you are attempting to .pipe one WriteStream into another WriteStream.