How to save downloaded binary data without using pipe

On my node server and try to download a png image from a url and write it to a file:

  request
.get("https://url/for/png/file")
.on('error', function(err) {
  console.log(err)
})
.on('response', function(response){
  console.log(response.statusCode) // 200
  console.log(response.headers['content-type']); // 'image/png'
})
.on('complete', (resp: http.IncomingMessage, body: string | Buffer) => {
  fs.writeFile(".../test.png", body, 'binary');

});

The main issue is that the written file is corrupted (can’t be opened).

If I use pipe instead of on(‘complete’…) at the end the written file is correct.

.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(".../test.png"))

What exactly is the difference and what am I missing to be able to write the file?

[L11R]

@Aranir it’s too late maybe, but here is my solution:

const options = {
  url: 'https://url/for/png/file',
  encoding: null
};

request.get(options)
  .then(function (res) {
    const buffer = Buffer.from(res, 'utf8');
    fs.writeFileSync('/some/path', buffer);
  });

[raine]

^

Buffer.from(res, 'utf8') is not necessary since passing encoding: null as option would already make res a Buffer.