How would I save an attachment provided by a command?

[ebon knoll]

How would I save an attachment provided by a command (in a folder in my bots source) as I have tried saving the buffer to a file but that corrupts it.

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[obsidian forge]

Download the file using the link you get from the attachment object

[ebon knoll]

How would I do that exactly?

[obsidian forge]

That's what I do atleast.
wget exists in linux

[ebon knoll]

I was ideally hoping to download it with code and save it automatically

[obsidian forge]

You can achieve that by using the child_process package of node.
the exec package to be exact.
That can be used to execute a download command for the attachment link after navigating to your folder within the working directory

But double check what you're downloading always.

[ebon knoll]

do you have documentation for it?

[obsidian forge]

What OS are you using ?

[ebon knoll]

for testing, windows, for hosting, my VPS with ubuntu using pm2

[obsidian forge]

Then the commands and how you handle the chaining differs

[ebon knoll]

what I was looking for is a way to just use fs to write the file ideally

to save time and just make my code more efficient

would I be able to use a write stream for this or?

I think I have found a way from this code sample

let request = require(`request`);
let fs = require(`fs`);
function download(url){
    request.get(url)
        .on('error', console.error)
        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('meme.png'));
}

[obsidian forge]

Then I have to apologize because idk much about the fs ecosystem.
For me personally I created a single download function that I can use anywhere within the code when I want.

Oh yeah that also works. atleast the logic is right

[ebon knoll]

yeah Ill test this and hope that it doesnt corrupt

even if it does ill just trial and error it

[obsidian forge]

But where does it save the file to ?
You might have to figure that out as well

So your core folders won't get spammed

[ebon knoll]

with that it would save it to the root

but if I were to put

let request = require(`request`);
let fs = require(`fs`);
function download(url){
    request.get(url)
        .on('error', console.error)
        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./files/meme.png'));
}

it would save it to the files directory