How to read remote file with Node.js http.get?

To read remote file with Node.js http.get, we create a write stream.

For instance, we write

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

const file = fs.createWriteStream("data.txt");

https.get("https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/iso_8859-1.txt", (response) => {
  const stream = response.pipe(file);

  stream.on("finish", () => {
    console.log("done");
  });
});

to call createWriteStream to create a write stream to write to data.txt.

Then we call get to make a get request to the file.

We get the response as a read stream and call pipe to pipe it to the file write stream.

And we call on to listen to the finish event which is emitted when writing is done.