File Saver

A simple fn to save a file to disk.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Browser Support
• Contribute

Installation

You can install this package from NPM:

npm add save-as-file

Or with Yarn:

yarn add save-as-file

CDN

For CDN, you can use unpkg:

https://unpkg.com/save-as-file/dist/bundles/save-as-file.umd.min.js

The global namespace for save-as-file is saveAsFile:

const json = JSON.stringify({ping: true});
const file = new File([json], {type: 'application/json'});
saveAsFile(file, 'test.json');

Usage

ES6

Save a File to disk:

import saveFile from 'save-as-file';
const json = JSON.stringify({ping: true});
const file = new File([json], {type: 'application/json'});
saveFile(file, 'test.json');

NOTE: We create a temporary data uri for File/Blob objects which we revoke after 1 minute.
If you need to download a large file which may take longer than 1 minute to download,
use the 3rd argument to increase this timeout:

import saveFile from 'save-as-file';
const json = JSON.stringify({ping: true});
const file = new File([json], {type: 'application/json'});
saveFile(file, 'test.json', 1000 * 60 * 10 /* 10 mins */);

CommonJS

Save a File to disk:

const saveFile = require('save-as-file');
const json = JSON.stringify({ping: true});
const file = new File([json], {type: 'application/json'});
saveFile(file, 'test.json');

Browser Support

You can expect this lib to run wherever the href download attribute is supported.

Contribute

If you wish to contribute, please use the following guidelines:

• Use Conventional Commits
• Use [ci skip] in commit messages to skip a build