fast-stream-to-buffer

Consume a stream of data into a binary Buffer as efficiently as possible.

Installation

npm install fast-stream-to-buffer --save

Usage

Process an abitrary readable stream:

1const streamToBuffer = require('fast-stream-to-buffer')
2
3streamToBuffer(stream, function (err, buf) {
4  if (err) throw err
5  console.log(buf.toString())
6})

Or use the onStream() helper function:

1const http = require('http')
2const streamToBuffer = require('fast-stream-to-buffer')
3
4// `http.get` expects a callback as the 2nd argument that will be called
5// with a readable stream of the response
6http.get('http://example.com', streamToBuffer.onStream(function (err, buf) {
7  if (err) throw err
8  console.log(buf.toString('utf8'))
9})

API

streamToBuffer(stream, callback)

Arguments:

• stream - Any readable stream
• callback - A callback function which will be called with an optional error object as the first argument and a buffer containing the content of the stream as the 2nd

fn = streamToBuffer.onStream(callback)

Returns a function fn which expects a readable stream as its only argument. When called, it will automatically call streamToBuffer() with the stream as the first argument and the callback as the second.

License

MIT