node.js axios download file stream and writeFile

Question

i want download a pdf file with axios and save on disk (server side) with fs.writeFile, i have tried:

axios.get(\'https://xxx/my.pd         


        

Answer 1

node fileSystem writeFile encodes data by default to UTF8. which could be a problem in your case.

Try setting your encoding to null and skip encoding the received data:

fs.writeFile('/temp/my.pdf', response.data, {encoding: null}, (err) => {...}

you can also decalre encoding as a string (instead of options object) if you only declare encoding and no other options. string will be handled as encoding value. as such:

fs.writeFile('/temp/my.pdf', response.data, 'null', (err) => {...}

more read in fileSystem API write_file