# download [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kevva/download.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kevva/download) > Download and extract files *See [download-cli](https://github.com/kevva/download-cli) for the command-line version.* ## Install ``` $ npm install download ``` ## Usage ```js const fs = require('fs'); const download = require('download'); (async () => { await download('http://unicorn.com/foo.jpg', 'dist'); fs.writeFileSync('dist/foo.jpg', await download('http://unicorn.com/foo.jpg')); download('unicorn.com/foo.jpg').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('dist/foo.jpg')); await Promise.all([ 'unicorn.com/foo.jpg', 'cats.com/dancing.gif' ].map(url => download(url, 'dist'))); })(); ``` ### Proxies To work with proxies, read the [`got documentation`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#proxies). ## API ### download(url, destination?, options?) Returns both a `Promise` and a [Duplex stream](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_duplex) with [additional events](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#streams-1). #### url Type: `string` URL to download. #### destination Type: `string` Path to where your file will be written. #### options Type: `Object` Same options as [`got`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#options) and [`decompress`](https://github.com/kevva/decompress#options) in addition to the ones below. ##### extract Type: `boolean`
Default: `false` If set to `true`, try extracting the file using [`decompress`](https://github.com/kevva/decompress). ##### filename Type: `string` Name of the saved file.