# How to download an image using Node.js

> Learn how to download an image or file in Node.js using the request module and fs, piping the response into createWriteStream to save it to disk.

Author: [Flavio Copes](https://flaviocopes.com/about/) | Published: 2020-04-07 | Topics: [Node.js](https://flaviocopes.com/tags/node/) | Canonical: https://flaviocopes.com/node-download-image/

How do you download a file? 

I asked myself this question when I had to download a file from a server, programmatically.

I had to connect to a server, download a file, and store it locally.

This is the code I used:

```js
const fs = require('fs')
const request = require('request')

const download = (url, path, callback) => {
  request.head(url, (err, res, body) => {
    request(url)
      .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(path))
      .on('close', callback)
  })
}

const url = 'https://…'
const path = './images/image.png'

download(url, path, () => {
  console.log('✅ Done!')
})
```

The code uses the `fs` built-in module and the [`request` module](https://www.npmjs.com/package/request).

`request` must be installed:

```
npm install request
```

Note that the `request` module was recently deprecated, which means it's "complete" and no new changes will be applied to it. Only fixes. It doesn't mean it will stop working and it does not mean we should stop using it.