How to download an excel file in Angular 8 as an API response

Question

I\'ve an API which returns an excel document as response. The request will be one simple json.

I\'ve searched google and found some code base to download the file and I

Answer 1

Set response-header { responseType: 'blob'} in the request.

To download the excel, use the below function.

response - api response, fileName- excel name

downloadExcel(response, fileName) {
    // Doing it this way allows you to name the file
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(res);
    link.download = fileName;
    link.click();
  }