Get download progress in Node.js with request
download, node.js, progress, request
Solution
This should get you the total you want:
req.on( 'response', function ( data ) {
console.log( data.headers[ 'content-length' ] );
} );
I get a content length of `9404541`
Problem
I'm creating an updater that downloads application files using the Node module `request`. How can I use `chunk.length` to estimate the remaining file size? Here's part of my code: ``` var file_url = 'http://foo.com/bar.zip'; var out = fs.createWriteStream('baz.zip'); var req = request({ method: 'GET', uri: file_url }); req.pipe(out); req.on('data', function (chunk) { console.log(chunk.length); }); req.on('end', function() { //Do something }); ```