Getting binary content in Node.js using request -

Getting binary content in Node.js using request -

i trying get binary info using request, , had like:

var requestsettings = { method: 'get', url: url, }; request(requestsettings, function(error, response, body) { // utilize body binary buffer }

but body few bytes different expected. after farther investigation found out request assumed body string , replaced non-unicode bytes.

i tried add

encoding: 'binary'

to requestsettings didn't help.

how can binary data?

ok, after lot of digging, found out requestsettings should have:

encoding: null

and body of type buffer, instead of default, string.

node.js request binaryfiles