How to download a file with Node.js (without using third-party libraries)?

Question

How do I download a file with Node.js without using third-party libraries?

I don\'t need anything special. I only want to download a file from a giv

Answer 1

Without library it could be buggy just to point out. Here are a few:

• Can't handle http redirection, like this url https://calibre-ebook.com/dist/portable which is binary.
• http module can't https url, you will get Protocol "https:" not supported.

Here my suggestion:

• Call system tool like wget or curl
• use some tool like node-wget-promise which also very simple to use. var wget = require('node-wget-promise'); wget('http://nodejs.org/images/logo.svg');