download-tarball

Download a tarball (optionally gzipped) to a folder & extract it in the process. Uses the wonderful & super quick tar-fs & gunzip-maybe srcraries.

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. It can be installed using the npm or yarn command line tools.

npm install download-tarball --save

Usage

/* eslint-disable import/no-extraneous-dependencies */

import download from 'download-tarball';

download({
  url: 'http://link-to-tarball/file.tar.gz',
  dir: '/dir/where/file/will/be/downloaded'
}).then(() => {
  console.log('file is now downloaded!');
}).catch(err => {
  console.log('oh crap the file could not be downloaded properly');
  console.log(err);
});

download({
  url: 'http://link-to-tarball/file.tar.gz',
  dir: '/dir/where/file/will/be/downloaded',
  // custom options that will be forwarded to got.stream(..., opts) can also be set
  gotOpts: {
    headers: {
      beep: 'boop'
    }
  }
}).then(() => {
  console.log('file is now downloaded!');
}).catch(err => {
  console.log('oh crap the file could not be downloaded properly');
  console.log(err);
});

download({
  // neat, tar files works as well!
  url: 'http://link-to-tarball/file.tar',
  dir: '/dir/where/file/will/be/downloaded'
}).then(() => {
  console.log('file is now downloaded!');
}).catch(err => {
  console.log('oh crap the file could not be downloaded properly');
  console.log(err);
});

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

gunzip-maybe: Transform stream that gunzips its input if it is gzipped and just echoes it if not
pump: pipe streams together and close all of them if one of them closes
tar-fs: filesystem bindings for tar-stream

Dev Dependencies

@types/gunzip-maybe: TypeScript definitions for gunzip-maybe
@types/jest: TypeScript definitions for Jest
@types/node: TypeScript definitions for Node.js
@types/pump: TypeScript definitions for pump
@types/tar-fs: TypeScript definitions for tar-fs
http-test-server: Create a simple http server for tests
jest: Delightful JavaScript Testing.
package-json-to-readme: Generate a README.md from package.json contents
tar-stream: tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system.
tmp: Temporary file and directory creator
ts-jest: A Jest transformer with source map support that lets you use Jest to test projects written in TypeScript
tsup: Bundle your TypeScript library with no config, powered by esbuild
got: Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js
typescript: TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development

License

MIT