### Breaking

- Require Node.js 12.20  2436048
- This package is now pure ESM. Please [read this](https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3ecc99d99c).

### Fixes

- Preserve `content-encoding` header if the respose is passed through  b35646b

https://github.com/sindresorhus/decompress-response/compare/v7.0.0...v8.0.0

sindresorhus

decompress-response

Sindre Sorhus

Vsevolod Strukchinsky

# decompress-response

> Decompress a HTTP response if needed

Decompresses the [response](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_incomingmessage) from [`http.request`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback) if it's gzipped, deflated or compressed with Brotli, otherwise just passes it through.

Used by [`got`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got).

## Install

```sh
npm install decompress-response
```

## Usage

```js
import http from 'node:http';
import decompressResponse from 'decompress-response';

http.get('https://sindresorhus.com', response => {
	response = decompressResponse(response);
});
```

## API

### decompressResponse(response)

Returns the decompressed HTTP response stream.

#### response

Type: [`http.IncomingMessage`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_incomingmessage)

The HTTP incoming stream with compressed data.

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