How to download file stream and writeFile with Node.js axios?

To download file stream and writeFile with Node.js axios, we set the responseType.

For instance, we write

const response = await axios({
  method: "get",
  url: "https://example.com/my.pdf",
  responseType: "stream",
});
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("/temp/my.pdf"));

to call axios to make a get request.

We set the responseType to 'stream' to download the data as a stream.

And then we call response.data.file with a write stream to pipe the read stream we get from response to the write stream to write the response data to the my.pdf file.