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An HTML5 saveAs() FileSaver implementation

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2012-10-19 · latest 2019-08-30

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  1. …I've worked on) with StreamSaver.js for streaming file encryption/decryption/downloading. 1. https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js 2. https://github.com/transcend-io/penumbra
    comment by Sephr · 2019-08-30 · in FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript
  2. https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/issues Doesn't seem to be working well. A few people I know got burned trying to use it and expecting universal functionality across all browsers.
    comment by bitL · 2019-01-27 · in iOS 12.2 Beta: Progressive Web App Capabilities
  3. sure you can, but the user must choose where to put it, no arbitrary saves. https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js
    comment by Illniyar · 2019-01-27 · in iOS 12.2 Beta: Progressive Web App Capabilities
  4. …to file is really nice, and I wasn't aware could be done. It got my Googling, and I found this: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js Which I'm guessing is what people use these days when needing 'save as file' from the browser. I wanted…
    comment by exodust · 2017-02-01 · in Piskel – A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art
  5. Safari still doesn't fully support Blob URLs ... https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/issues/12
    comment by jasonsync · 2015-02-25 · in Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?
  6. How about Apple's refusal to fix blob URL download support? https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/issues/12
    comment by jasonsync · 2015-02-25 · in Tired of Safari
  7. Using https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js it could be possible to have only HTML/CSS/JS based cms...also I found this one which looks like it can the do job .. http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md
    comment by vsergiu · 2014-06-04 · in Ask HN: Single page CMS without PHP etc
  8. MIT licensed source code: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js In case it's not clear, this allows you to generate a file from client-side JS, and allow the user to save the generated file without first having to upload the generated…
    comment by picomancer · 2014-03-17 · in Saving generated files on the client-side
  9. It's done with FileSaver. More specifically, it uses this polyfill: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js
    comment by wildpeaks · 2014-02-24 · in Doctored.js – A new kind of editor
  10. I used this: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/
    comment by paulrosenzweig · 2013-11-02 · in Show HN: Make your own gif mashups. All client-side, hosted on S3
  11. I am weirdly much more interested by the FileSaver.js and Blob.js ( https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/ and https://github.com/eligrey/Blob.js ) libraries than by the (small) app itself. It does make the 'first webapp' very small,…
    comment by idlewan · 2013-09-07 · in My first webapp (runs offline): A very simple notepad
  12. https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js FileSaver.js implements the W3C saveAs() FileSaver interface in browsers that do not natively support it. No IE support, but what’s the intersection of Mega users and IE users?
    comment by robin_reala · 2012-10-19 · in Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega