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

import http from 'node:http';
import decompressResponse from '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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Current Tags

8.1.0 ... latest (2 years ago)