Writing a text file using request in nodejs

Question

I've been trying to read a txt file from a URL and output my own text file using nodejs

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong in my code?

var fs = require('fs');
var request = require('request');
var stream = fs.createWriteStream("my_file.txt");



request('http://redsismica.uprm.edu/Data/prsn/EarlyWarning/Catalogue.txt', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {

    firstLine = body.substring(0, body.indexOf('\n'));
    console.log(firstLine);

    stream.once('open', function(fd) {
    wstream.write(firstLine, 'utf16le');//stream.write(firstLine);
    stream.end();
});
  }
})

peteb · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-29 16:42:10Z

2

Not sure what wstream is in your code but with request you can pipe your response directly to your write stream.

var stream = fs.createWriteStream('my_file.txt', { defaultEncoding: 'utf16le' });

stream.once('error', function(err) {
  console.log(err);
});

stream.once('end', function() {
  console.log('response written');
});

request('http://redsismica.uprm.edu/Data/prsn/EarlyWarning/Catalogue.txt')
  .once('error', function(err) {
    console.log('Request Error: ' + err);
  })
  .pipe(stream);

edited Jun 29, 2016 at 16:42

answered Jun 29, 2016 at 16:36

peteb

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