Direct file download in Node.js, using libcurl.

The goal of this module is to avoid sending data in JavaScript-land; while piping works perfectly fine, it also increases CPU usage for no good reason when all we want is to download a file to disk.

So this module simply pipes libcurl to a file, all in C/C++.

Requirements

Currently tested on Windows 10 and macOS.

• CMake 3.5+

Installation

npm install --save Curlyfile

Usage

const Curlyfile = require('curlyfile').Curlyfile
const curly = new Curlyfile()
curly.download('http://some.file.com/hello', '/tmp/test-curly', function (error) {
  console.log('Done!', error ? error : null)
})

Development

git clone ...
cd curlyfile
git submodule update --init
# Or any cmake.js command - npm run -- cmake -h for more details
npm run cmake build

Todo

• [ ] Proper tests
• [ ] Cancel API
• [ ] Progress API (# of bytes downloaded so far)
• [ ] Prebuild for Node.js and Electron