vs request module

[timoxley]

You may want to look into the request package which basically does the same thing as this but doesn't require managing any temporary files or most importantly: doesn't load all the data into memory before processing it.

e.g.

request('http://example.com/file.txt')
.pipe(zlib.createUnzip())
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('/dir/file.txt'))
.on('end', function() {
  // done.
})

[timoxley]

hooray streams.

[tschaub]

I agree that things could be simplified here, but this module already does already use request (and streams). And to handle zipfile archives, you need to at least buffer (though not necessarily write temp files).