Using HTML5/JavaScript to generate and save a file

Question

I\'ve been fiddling with WebGL lately, and have gotten a Collada reader working. Problem is it\'s pretty slow (Collada is a very verbose format), so I\'m going to start conv

Answer 1

try

let a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = "data:application/octet-stream,"+encodeURIComponent('"My DATA"');
a.download = 'myFile.json';
a.click(); // we not add 'a' to DOM so no need to remove

If you want to download binary data look here

Update

2020.06.14 I upgrade Chrome to 83.0 and above SO snippet stop works (due to sandbox security restrictions) - but JSFiddle version works - here