Is there a way to get the raw data from a file and embed it in a page?

[ki4jgt]

What version of WebTorrent?
Current -- using CDN
What operating system and Node.js version?
Windows -- in browser
What browser and version? (if using WebTorrent in the browser)
Mozilla 59
What did you expect to happen?
N/A
What actually happened?

I'm working on a P2P video-sharing platform in the browser. I would like to read a txt file -- containing video information -- and then display its contents within the page.

[KayleePop]

// file is a webtorrent file object
file.getBuffer(function (err, buffer) {
  if (err) throw err
  let text = buffer.toString('utf8')
  console.log(text) //or render to DOM
})

[feross]

Thanks for sharing a code example, @KayleePop :)

@ki4jgt There are more methods of accessing file data in the docs: http://webtorrent.io/docs