Writing my own response since it didn't fit my requirements.

What this covers:

• HTTPS download (switch package to http for HTTP downloads)
• Promise based function
• Handle forwarded path (status 302)
• Browser header - required on a few CDNs
• Filename from URL (as well as hardcoded)
• Error handling

It's typed, it's safer. Feel free to drop the types if you're working with plain JS (no Flow, no TS) or convert to a .d.ts file

index.js

import httpsDownload from httpsDownload; httpsDownload('https://example.com/file.zip', './'); 

httpsDownload.[js|ts]

import https from "https"; import fs from "fs"; import path from "path"; function download( url: string, folder?: string, filename?: string ): Promise<void> { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { const req = https .request(url, { headers: { "User-Agent": "javascript" } }, (response) => { if (response.statusCode === 302 && response.headers.location != null) { download( buildNextUrl(url, response.headers.location), folder, filename ) .then(resolve) .catch(reject); return; } const file = fs.createWriteStream( buildDestinationPath(url, folder, filename) ); response.pipe(file); file.on("finish", () => { file.close(); resolve(); }); }) .on("error", reject); req.end(); }); } function buildNextUrl(current: string, next: string) { const isNextUrlAbsolute = RegExp("^(?:[a-z]+:)?//").test(next); if (isNextUrlAbsolute) { return next; } else { const currentURL = new URL(current); const fullHost = `${currentURL.protocol}//${currentURL.hostname}${ currentURL.port ? ":" + currentURL.port : "" }`; return `${fullHost}${next}`; } } function buildDestinationPath(url: string, folder?: string, filename?: string) { return path.join(folder ?? "./", filename ?? generateFilenameFromPath(url)); } function generateFilenameFromPath(url: string): string { const urlParts = url.split("/"); return urlParts[urlParts.length - 1] ?? ""; } export default download;