How to download a file using JavaScript

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Today we will show you how to download a file using JavaScript. Here we will give you the JavaScript method to download the file from the URL.

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Let’s assume that we have an download URL and filename to download the file from the URL. So we will generate a tag and trigger the click event to download the file.

function download(fileUrl, fileName) {
  var a = document.createElement("a");
  a.href = fileUrl;
  a.setAttribute("download", fileName);
  a.click();
}

download("https://DOMAIN.COM/FILE_NAME.txt", "FILE_NAME.txt");
Note: The HTML’s download attribute is used to download a file when clicking on the link (instead of navigating to the file).

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