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# fetch-blob
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[![npm version][npm-image]][npm-url]
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[![build status][ci-image]][ci-url]
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[![coverage status][codecov-image]][codecov-url]
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[![install size][install-size-image]][install-size-url]
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A Blob implementation in Node.js, originally from [node-fetch](https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch).
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## Installation
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```sh
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npm install fetch-blob
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```
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<details>
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<summary>Upgrading from 2x to 3x</summary>
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Updating from 2 to 3 should be a breeze since there is not many changes to the blob specification.
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The major cause of a major release is coding standards.
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- internal WeakMaps was replaced with private fields
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- internal Buffer.from was replaced with TextEncoder/Decoder
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- internal buffers was replaced with Uint8Arrays
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- CommonJS was replaced with ESM
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- The node stream returned by calling `blob.stream()` was replaced with whatwg streams
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- (Read "Differences from other blobs" for more info.)
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</details>
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<details>
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<summary>Differences from other Blobs</summary>
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- Unlike NodeJS `buffer.Blob` (Added in: v15.7.0) and browser native Blob this polyfilled version can't be sent via PostMessage
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- This blob version is more arbitrary, it can be constructed with blob parts that isn't a instance of itself
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it has to look and behave as a blob to be accepted as a blob part.
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- The benefit of this is that you can create other types of blobs that don't contain any internal data that has to be read in other ways, such as the `BlobDataItem` created in `from.js` that wraps a file path into a blob-like item and read lazily (nodejs plans to [implement this][fs-blobs] as well)
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- The `blob.stream()` is the most noticeable differences. It returns a WHATWG stream now. to keep it as a node stream you would have to do:
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```js
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import {Readable} from 'stream'
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const stream = Readable.from(blob.stream())
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```
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</details>
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## Usage
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```js
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// Ways to import
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// (PS it's dependency free ESM package so regular http-import from CDN works too)
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import Blob from 'fetch-blob'
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import File from 'fetch-blob/file.js'
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import {Blob} from 'fetch-blob'
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import {File} from 'fetch-blob/file.js'
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const {Blob} = await import('fetch-blob')
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// Ways to read the blob:
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const blob = new Blob(['hello, world'])
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await blob.text()
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await blob.arrayBuffer()
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for await (let chunk of blob.stream()) { ... }
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blob.stream().getReader().read()
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blob.stream().getReader({mode: 'byob'}).read(view)
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```
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### Blob part backed up by filesystem
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`fetch-blob/from.js` comes packed with tools to convert any filepath into either a Blob or a File
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It will not read the content into memory. It will only stat the file for last modified date and file size.
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```js
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// The default export is sync and use fs.stat to retrieve size & last modified as a blob
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import blobFromSync from 'fetch-blob/from.js'
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import {File, Blob, blobFrom, blobFromSync, fileFrom, fileFromSync} from 'fetch-blob/from.js'
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const fsFile = fileFromSync('./2-GiB-file.bin', 'application/octet-stream')
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const fsBlob = await blobFrom('./2-GiB-file.mp4')
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// Not a 4 GiB memory snapshot, just holds references
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// points to where data is located on the disk
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const blob = new Blob([fsFile, fsBlob, 'memory', new Uint8Array(10)])
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console.log(blob.size) // ~4 GiB
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```
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`blobFrom|blobFromSync|fileFrom|fileFromSync(path, [mimetype])`
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### Creating Blobs backed up by other async sources
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Our Blob & File class are more generic then any other polyfills in the way that it can accept any blob look-a-like item
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An example of this is that our blob implementation can be constructed with parts coming from [BlobDataItem](https://github.com/node-fetch/fetch-blob/blob/8ef89adad40d255a3bbd55cf38b88597c1cd5480/from.js#L32) (aka a filepath) or from [buffer.Blob](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_new_buffer_blob_sources_options), It dose not have to implement all the methods - just enough that it can be read/understood by our Blob implementation. The minium requirements is that it has `Symbol.toStringTag`, `size`, `slice()` and either a `stream()` or a `arrayBuffer()` method. If you then wrap it in our Blob or File `new Blob([blobDataItem])` then you get all of the other methods that should be implemented in a blob or file
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An example of this could be to create a file or blob like item coming from a remote HTTP request. Or from a DataBase
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See the [MDN documentation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob) and [tests](https://github.com/node-fetch/fetch-blob/blob/master/test.js) for more details of how to use the Blob.
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[npm-image]: https://flat.badgen.net/npm/v/fetch-blob
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[npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fetch-blob
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[ci-image]: https://github.com/node-fetch/fetch-blob/workflows/CI/badge.svg
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[ci-url]: https://github.com/node-fetch/fetch-blob/actions
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[codecov-image]: https://flat.badgen.net/codecov/c/github/node-fetch/fetch-blob/master
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[codecov-url]: https://codecov.io/gh/node-fetch/fetch-blob
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[install-size-image]: https://flat.badgen.net/packagephobia/install/fetch-blob
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[install-size-url]: https://packagephobia.now.sh/result?p=fetch-blob
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[fs-blobs]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37340
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