Change Blob Filename

Question

I am using code from https://stackoverflow.com/a/49500465/10241621 that downloads file from link. It does work but I do not know how to make a custom filename.

function forceDownload(blob, filename) {
  var a = document.createElement('a');
  a.download = filename;
  a.href = blob;
  // For Firefox https://stackoverflow.com/a/32226068
  document.body.appendChild(a);
  a.click();
  a.remove();
}

// Current blob size limit is around 500MB for browsers
function downloadResource(url, filename) {
  if (!filename) filename = url.split('\\').pop().split('/').pop();
  fetch(url, {
      headers: new Headers({
        'Origin': location.origin
      }),
      mode: 'cors'
    })
    .then(response => response.blob())
    .then(blob => {
      let blobUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
      forceDownload(blobUrl, filename);
    })
    .catch(e => console.error(e));
}

downloadResource('https://giant.gfycat.com/RemoteBlandBlackrussianterrier.webm');

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '19 at 22:58

The new file name is the second parameter to the function downloadResource(url, filename)

function forceDownload(blob, filename) {
  var a = document.createElement('a');
  a.download = filename;
  a.href = blob;
  // For Firefox https://stackoverflow.com/a/32226068
  document.body.appendChild(a);
  a.click();
  a.remove();
}

// Current blob size limit is around 500MB for browsers
function downloadResource(url, filename) {
  if (!filename) filename = url.split('\\').pop().split('/').pop();
  fetch(url, {
      headers: new Headers({
        'Origin': location.origin
      }),
      mode: 'cors'
    })
    .then(response => response.blob())
    .then(blob => {
      let blobUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
      forceDownload(blobUrl, filename);
    })
    .catch(e => console.error(e));
}

downloadResource('https://giant.gfycat.com/RemoteBlandBlackrussianterrier.webm', 'NewName');

Change Blob Filename

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