name : download-to-file.js var fs = require('fs'), needle = require('./..'), path = require('path'); var url = process.argv[2] || 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Tux.png'; var file = path.basename(url); console.log('Downloading ' + file); needle.get(url, { output: file, follow: 3 }, function(err, resp, data){ console.log('File saved: ' + process.cwd() + '/' + file); var size = fs.statSync(file).size; if (size == resp.bytes) console.log(resp.bytes + ' bytes written to file.'); else throw new Error('File size mismatch: ' + size + ' != ' + resp.bytes); });