Download File Using Javascript/jQuery

Question

I have a very similar requirement specified here.

I need to have the user\'s browser start a download manually when $(\'a#someID\').click();

But

Answer 1

I ended up using the below snippet and it works in most browsers, not tested in IE though.

let data = JSON.stringify([{email: "test@domain.com", name: "test"}, {email: "anothertest@example.com", name: "anothertest"}]);

let type = "application/json", name = "testfile.json";
downloader(data, type, name)

function downloader(data, type, name) {
	let blob = new Blob([data], {type});
	let url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
	downloadURI(url, name);
	window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}

function downloadURI(uri, name) {
    let link = document.createElement("a");
    link.download = name;
    link.href = uri;
    link.click();
}

Update

function downloadURI(uri, name) {
    let link = document.createElement("a");
    link.download = name;
    link.href = uri;
    link.click();
}

function downloader(data, type, name) {
    let blob = new Blob([data], {type});
    let url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    downloadURI(url, name);
    window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}