How can I download a file using window.fetch?
EDIT: syg answer is better. Just use downloadjs library.
The answer I provided works well on Chrome, but on Firefox and IE you need some different variant of this code. It's better to use library for that.
I had similar problem (need to pass authorization header to download a file so this solution didn't helped).
But based on this answer you can use createObjectURL
to make browser save a file downloaded by Fetch API.
getAuthToken()
.then(token => {
fetch("http://example.com/ExportExcel", {
method: 'GET',
headers: new Headers({
"Authorization": "Bearer " + token
})
})
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(blob => {
var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = url;
a.download = "filename.xlsx";
document.body.appendChild(a); // we need to append the element to the dom -> otherwise it will not work in firefox
a.click();
a.remove(); //afterwards we remove the element again
});
});
This is more shorter and efficient, no libraries only fetch API
const url ='http://sample.example.file.doc'
const authHeader ="Bearer 6Q************"
const options = {
headers: {
Authorization: authHeader
}
};
fetch(url, options)
.then( res => res.blob() )
.then( blob => {
var file = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
window.location.assign(file);
});