download-to-file

download-to-file

Download a file to disk programmatically.

Installation

npm install download-to-file --save

Usage

var download = require('download-to-file')

console.log('Downloading to /tmp/example.html')
download('http://example.com/', '/tmp/example.html', function (err) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log('Download finished')
})

API

download(url, filepath, callback)

Will download the content of the given url and store it in a file specified by filepath. When done, the callback will be called with an optional error object as the first argument.

If the server does not return a 200 HTTP status code, the callback will be called with an error and the file will not be stored on disk.

License

MIT