Question

I am using the following node.js code to download documents from some url and save it in the disk.
I want to be informed about when the document is downloaded. i have not seen any callback with pipe.Or, Is there any ‘end’ event that can be captured on completion of download ?

request(some_url_doc).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('xyz.doc'));

Answer 1

Streams are EventEmitters so you can listen to certain events. As you said there is a finish event for request (previously end).

 var stream = request(...).pipe(...);
 stream.on('finish', function () { ... });

For more information about which events are available you can check the stream documentation page.