How to download a file from a url, without the involvement of browser in javascript

Question

I want to download a file from https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/2018/QTR1/company.zip and I want to specify a path for it to be saved on my computer, but I dont want to use any browser intermediate. Can someone guide me how to write a script in javascript to download the file from url and save it on my pc

You could use server-side code - I *believe* you can do it in Node, but that's a guess. Also, why don't you want to use the browser? You can write a script that takes a URL, and downloads the file for you. And there's ``...you have lots of options, but browsers are there and simple. — Jack Bashford, Jun 01 '19 at 07:29
Ya I want to do it on Node only, Dont wanna use a browser... — , Jun 01 '19 at 07:31
This might help yoy https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11944932/how-to-download-a-file-with-node-js-without-using-third-party-libraries — chintuyadavsara, Jun 01 '19 at 08:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '19 at 08:20

As chintuyadavsara said, filling in this answer with your url does the trick:

const https = require('https');
const fs = require('fs');

function go (src, dest) {
    const file = fs.createWriteStream(dest);
    const request = https.get(src, function(response) {
        response.pipe(file);
    });
}

go('https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/2018/QTR1/company.zip', './company.zip');

How to download a file from a url, without the involvement of browser in javascript

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