How to download a file and unzip it from memory in clojure?

Question

I\'m making a GET request using clj-http and the response is a zip file. The contents of this zip is always one CSV file. I want to save the CSV file to disk, but I can\'t figur

Answer 1

You can use the pure java java.util.zip.ZipInputStream or java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream. Depends how the content is zipped. This is the code that saves your file using java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream :

(->
  (client/get "http://localhost:8000/blah.zip" {:as :byte-array})
  (:body)
  (io/input-stream)
  (java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.)
  (clojure.java.io/copy (clojure.java.io/file "/path/to/output/file")))

Using java.util.zip.ZipInputStream makes it only a bit more complicated :

(let [stream (->
                (client/get "http://localhost:8000/blah.zip" {:as :byte-array})
                (:body)
                (io/input-stream)
                (java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.))]
      (.getNextEntry stream)
      (clojure.java.io/copy stream (clojure.java.io/file "/path/to/output/file")))