I'm playing with the idea of making a completely JavaScript-based zip/unzip utility that anyone can access from a browser. They can just drag their zip directly into the browser and it'll let them download all the files within. They can also create new zip files by dragging individual files in.
I know it'd be better to do it serverside, but this project is just for a bit of fun.
Dragging files into the browser should be easy enough if I take advantage of the various methods available. (Gmail style)
Encoding/decoding should hopefully be fine. I've seen some as3 zip libraries so I'm sure I should be fine with that.
My issue is downloading the files at the end.
window.location = 'data:jpg/image;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJR....'
this works fine in Firefox but not in Chrome.
I can embed the files as images just fine in chrome using <img src="data:jpg/image;ba.." />, but the files won't necessarily be images. They could be any format.
Can anyone think of another solution or some kind of workaround?
If you also want to give a suggested name to the file (instead of the default 'download') you can use the following in Chrome, Firefox and some IE versions:
function downloadURI(uri, name) {
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = name;
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
delete link;
}
And the following example shows it's use:
downloadURI("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
function download(dataurl, filename) {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = dataurl;
link.download = filename;
link.click();
}
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
or:
function download(url, filename) {
fetch(url)
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(blob => {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.download = filename;
link.click();
})
.catch(console.error);
}
download("https://get.geojs.io/v1/ip/geo.json","geoip.json")
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
Ideas:
Try a <a href="data:...." target="_blank"> (Untested)
Use downloadify instead of data URLs (would work for IE as well)
Want to share my experience and help someone stuck on the downloads not working in Firefox and updated answer to 2014.
The below snippet will work in both firefox and chrome and it will accept a filename:
// Construct the <a> element
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = thefilename;
// Construct the uri
var uri = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8;base64,' + someb64data
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
// Cleanup the DOM
document.body.removeChild(link);
Here is a pure JavaScript solution I tested working in Firefox and Chrome but not in Internet Explorer:
function downloadDataUrlFromJavascript(filename, dataUrl) {
// Construct the 'a' element
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = filename;
link.target = "_blank";
// Construct the URI
link.href = dataUrl;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
// Cleanup the DOM
document.body.removeChild(link);
delete link;
}
Cross-browser solutions found up until now:
downloadify -> Requires Flash
databounce -> Tested in IE 10 and 11, and doesn't work for me. Requires a servlet and some customization. (Incorrectly detects navigator. I had to set IE in compatibility mode to test, default charset in servlet, JavaScript options object with correct servlet path for absolute paths...) For non-IE browsers, it opens the file in the same window.
download.js -> http://danml.com/download.html Another library similar but not tested. Claims to be pure JavaScript, not requiring servlet nor Flash, but doesn't work on IE <= 9.
There are several solutions but they depend on HTML5 and haven't been implemented completely in some browsers yet. Examples below were tested in Chrome and Firefox (partly works).
Canvas example with save to file support. Just set your document.location.href to the data URI.
Anchor download example. It uses <a href="your-data-uri" download="filename.txt"> to specify file name.
Combining answers from #owencm and #Chazt3n, this function will allow download of text from IE11, Firefox, and Chrome. (Sorry, I don't have access to Safari or Opera, but please add a comment if you try and it works.)
initiate_user_download = function(file_name, mime_type, text) {
// Anything but IE works here
if (undefined === window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
var e = document.createElement('a');
var href = 'data:' + mime_type + ';charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(text);
e.setAttribute('href', href);
e.setAttribute('download', file_name);
document.body.appendChild(e);
e.click();
document.body.removeChild(e);
}
// IE-specific code
else {
var charCodeArr = new Array(text.length);
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; ++i) {
var charCode = text.charCodeAt(i);
charCodeArr[i] = charCode;
}
var blob = new Blob([new Uint8Array(charCodeArr)], {type: mime_type});
window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, file_name);
}
}
// Example:
initiate_user_download('data.csv', 'text/csv', 'Sample,Data,Here\n1,2,3\n');
This can be solved 100% entirely with HTML alone. Just set the href attribute to "data:(mimetypeheader),(url)". For instance...
<a
href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4"
target="_blank"
download="video.mp4"
>Download Video</a>
Working example: JSFiddle Demo.
Because we use a Data URL, we are allowed to set the mimetype which indicates the type of data to download. Documentation:
Data URLs are composed of four parts: a prefix (data:), a MIME type indicating the type of data, an optional base64 token if non-textual, and the data itself. (Source: MDN Web Docs: Data URLs.)
Components:
<a ...> : The link tag.
href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4" : Here we are setting the link to the a data: with a header preconfigured to video/mp4. This is followed by the header mimetype. I.E., for a .txt file, it would would be text/plain. And then a comma separates it from the link we want to download.
target="_blank" : This indicates a new tab should be opened, it's not essential, but it helps guide the browser to the desired behavior.
download: This is the name of the file you're downloading.
If you only need to actually have a download action, like if you bind it to some button that will generate the URL on the fly when clicked (in Vue or React for example), you can do something as easy as this:
const link = document.createElement('a')
link.href = url
link.click()
In my case, the file is already properly named but you can set it thanks to filename if needed.
For anyone having issues in IE:
dataURItoBlob = function(dataURI) {
var binary = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
var array = [];
for(var i = 0; i < binary.length; i++) {
array.push(binary.charCodeAt(i));
}
return new Blob([new Uint8Array(array)], {type: 'image/png'});
}
var blob = dataURItoBlob(uri);
window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, "my-image.png");
This code was originally provided by #Yetti on this answer (separate question).
Your problem essentially boils down to "not all browsers will support this".
You could try a workaround and serve the unzipped files from a Flash object, but then you'd lose the JS-only purity (anyway, I'm not sure whether you currently can "drag files into browser" without some sort of Flash workaround - is that a HTML5 feature maybe?)
Coming late to the party, if you'd like to use a function without using the DOM, here it goes, since the DOM might not even be available for whatever reason.
It should be applicable in any Browser which has the fetch API.
Just test it here:
// declare the function
function downloadAsDataURL (url) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
fetch(url)
.then(res => res.blob())
.then(blob => {
const reader = new FileReader()
reader.readAsDataURL(blob)
reader.onloadend = () => resolve(reader.result)
reader.onerror = err => reject(err)
})
.catch(err => reject(err))
})
}
// simply use it like this
downloadAsDataURL ('https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/3404/3404134.png')
.then((res) => {
console.log(res)
})
.catch((err) => {
console.error(err)
})
export const downloadAs = async (url: string, name: string) => {
const blob = await axios.get(url, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
},
responseType: 'blob',
});
const a = document.createElement('a');
const href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob.data);
a.href = href;
a.download = name;
a.click();
};
You can use a clean code solution, inform your url in a constant, and set it as param of open method instead in object window.
const url = "file url here"
window.open(url)
I need to download pdf's from one of our online resources.There is no built in function to batch download.The only way to do it is to navigate to each pdf file, click to open, then click download.
There are several thousand files and this would take a very long time to do.
I got around this in the past using javascript. I gathered all the links to the pdfs, put them in a csv, and had the code loop through each link, download, and move onto the next link.
Unfortunately, I have lost that code and my efforts to recreate it have been unsuccessful.
I have tried everything in this article: How to download PDF automatically using js?
I have tried the code from this article (which I'm pretty sure is what I did before): https://www.convertplug.com/plus/docs/download-pdf-file-forcefully-instead-opening-browser-using-js/
This is what I think should work...per the second article I referenced above
function download_file(fileURL, fileName) {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.href = fileURL;
link.download = 'file.pdf';
link.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click'));
}
var fileURL = "link/to/pdf";
var fileName = "test.pdf";
download(fileURL,fileName);
The code above is just to test download one file from a hardcoded URL. If it worked as intended, when the page is loaded, it should download the pdf from the provided url. Instead, it doesn't do anything on load or refresh.
Any suggestions?
Please check
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18983688/6923146
click me
Another one
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45905238/6923146
function download(url, filename) {
fetch(url).then(function(t) {
return t.blob().then((b)=>{
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = URL.createObjectURL(b);
a.setAttribute("download", filename);
a.click();
}
);
});
}
download("https://get.geojs.io/v1/ip/geo.json","geoip.json")
download("data:text/html,Hello Developer!", "HelloDeveloper.txt");
I hope it helpfull
https://www.convertplug.com/plus/docs/download-pdf-file-forcefully-instead-opening-browser-using-js/
You must add link element to DOM
function download_file(fileURL, fileName) {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.href = fileURL;
link.download = fileName;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
}
var fileURL = "https://cdn.sstatic.net/clc/img/jobs/bg-remote-header-sm.png";
var fileName = "test.pdf";
download_file(fileURL, fileName); // fix function name
Link must be in same origin
The download attribute on anchor was ignored because its href URL has a different security origin.
I am creating a script that lets you download a CSV File of current table on the page like this:
var downloadLink = document.createElement("a");
var blob = new Blob(["", CSVString], {type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8'});
if (navigator.appVersion.toString().indexOf('.NET') > 0) {
window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, "Daten.csv");
}
else {
downloadLink.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
downloadLink.download = "Daten.csv";
downloadLink.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);
downloadLink.click();
}
Now if I use IE it asks if I want to download a file from localhost, but in Mozilla Firefox the download window says "From: blob:". Can it be changed to show the host name or a name that I specify (e.g. Test)?
Pitifully there's no available solution till the date. The issue was reported a couple of years ago but it seems it has the minor importance level and no one is asigned to this issue.
The From label will always display from: blob::
No matter what you do.
Anchor tag not downloading file in IE, instead it gives the option to search for app in app store to open file. For chrome and FF this code is working fine. I don't know this is happening in windows 7 or not as I am using windows 8.1 and windows 7 don't have option for apps.
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = filepath;
a.download = filename;
a.click();
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Directly quoting from SOpost
Internet Explorer does not presently support the Download attribute on A tags.
See http://caniuse.com/download and http://status.modern.ie/adownloadattribute; the latter indicates that the feature is "Under consideration" for IE12.
this might help:
var blob = new Blob([response.responseText], { type: headers['content-type'] });
if (navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
//Launches the associated application for a File or Blob saving for non webkit based browser such as safari or IE
navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, "cvSummary.xml");
}
else {
//code for webkit based browser
var link = document.createElement('a');
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.style = "display: none";
var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.download = "cvSummary.xml";
link.dataset.downloadurl = ["text/xml", link.download, link.href].join(':');
link.click();
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}
My requirement is to import a html table to a CSV file. The code below gets called when the Download to CSV button is clicked in my web page. This works fine in chrome however in firefox it does nothing.
input.addEventListener('click', function (e) {
var fileName = cntrySel.value + '-Data.csv';
var a = document.createElement('a');
var data=$('#output').table2CSV({delivery:'value'});
blob = new Blob([data], { type: 'text/csv' }); //new way
var csvUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
a.download = fileName;
a.href = csvUrl;
a.click();
a.setAttribute('onClick','');
e.preventDefault();
});
In firefox debugger, I can see the above function is getting triggered upon click but a.click() does nothing in FF whereas it downloads the csv file in chrome.
Any help is appreciated.
Soon after I posted this question, I came across this link Dynamically created ahref click event not working in firefox or safari? which has the answer.