Question

I need a nodejs stream (http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html) implementation that sends data to a string. Do you know anyone?

To be direct I’m trying to pipe a request response like this:
request(‘http://google.com/doodle.png’).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(‘doodle.png’))

FROM https://github.com/mikeal/request

Thanks

Answer 1

You might find the class Sink in the pipette module to be handy for this use case. Using that you can write:

var sink = new pipette.Sink(request(...));
sink.on('data', function(buffer) {
  console.log(buffer.toString());
}

Sink also handles error events coming back from the stream reasonably gracefully. See https://github.com/Obvious/pipette#sink for details.

[Edit: because I realized I used the wrong event name.]