[CLOSED] Is it possible to save the file using the stream?

[feross]

Issue by shemer77
Wednesday May 14, 2014 at 18:35 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-client/issues/13

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Hey I'm new to node and not very familiar with streams. I'm trying out your code and I can see that you can use

var stream = file.createReadStream()

To get a stream of the file but what if I just want to download the whole file and save it on my computer. Is it possible to do that?

[feross]

Comment by feross
Wednesday May 14, 2014 at 19:02 GMT

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The createReadStream function hasn't been implemented yet. I'll update this issue when it's ready to use (hopefully within no more than a few days).

When it's ready, this is how you would use it:

var fs = require('fs')
file.createReadStream()
    .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('~/downloads/movie.mp4'))
    .on('close', function () { console.log('done!') })

[feross]

Comment by shemer77
Thursday May 15, 2014 at 18:38 GMT

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Very cool, excited to try it out.

[feross]

Comment by fisch0920
Sunday May 18, 2014 at 09:32 GMT

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This should be working now using feross' code sample.

[feross]

Comment by shemer77
Monday May 19, 2014 at 22:41 GMT

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Tried it out, works great. Thanks.

One thing though, I noticed that it is significantly slow downloading files ( I compared the same file to using something like vuse or utorrent). Is that because of the protocol the torrent client is built on or just certain features such as port forwarding,upnp, etc haven't been added in yet?

[feross]

Comment by fisch0920
Monday May 19, 2014 at 23:00 GMT

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It could be any number of reasons depending on the torrent. Vuze/uTorrent are significantly more mature than webtorrent. Would you mind including your relative speeds for Vuze vs webtorrent and a link to the torrent? (e.g. using the webtorrent executable)

[feross]

Comment by feross
Friday Jun 06, 2014 at 05:24 GMT

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User's issue (saving file as a stream) is fixed now. Closing.