szmarczak / decompress-response

Decompress a HTTP response if needed

decompress-response

Decompress a HTTP response if needed

Decompresses the response from http.request if it's gzipped, deflated or compressed with Brotli, otherwise just passes it through.

Used by got.

Install

$ npm install decompress-response

Usage

const http = require('http');
const decompressResponse = require('decompress-response');

http.get('https://sindresorhus.com', response => {
	response = decompressResponse(response);
});

API

decompressResponse(response)

Returns the decompressed HTTP response stream.

response

Type: http.IncomingMessage

The HTTP incoming stream with compressed data.

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