Request: how to unzip gzip response

Created on 27 Dec 2013 · 6Comments · Source: request/request

Example:

function response (err, response, body) {

// current how to unzip body ?

}
request.get({
    url : path,
    headers: {
        'Accept-Encoding' : 'gzip'
    }
}, response);

Source

youxiachai

Most helpful comment

@VRMink here it is example

  zlib = require('zlib');

function response (err, res, body) {
//check res header it is gzip
 console.log(res.headers['content-encoding'])
//now body it is gzip stream buffer
      zlib.unzip(body, function(err, buffer) {
             console.log(buffer.toString())
       }

}
    request.get({
        url : apiUrl,
        headers: {
            'Accept-Encoding' : 'gzip',
          },
        encoding : null  // it is very import!!
    }, response);

youxiachai on 13 Jan 2014

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I resolve it.

youxiachai on 30 Dec 2013

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How did you resolve it?

VRMink on 13 Jan 2014

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@VRMink here it is example

  zlib = require('zlib');

function response (err, res, body) {
//check res header it is gzip
 console.log(res.headers['content-encoding'])
//now body it is gzip stream buffer
      zlib.unzip(body, function(err, buffer) {
             console.log(buffer.toString())
       }

}
    request.get({
        url : apiUrl,
        headers: {
            'Accept-Encoding' : 'gzip',
          },
        encoding : null  // it is very import!!
    }, response);

youxiachai on 13 Jan 2014

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Thanks - that was not very obvious :)

VRMink on 13 Jan 2014

@youxiachai Thanks!