decompress-response

Decompress a HTTP response if needed

Decompresses the response from http.request if it's gzipped, deflated or compressed with Brotli, otherwise just passes it through.

Used by got.

npm install decompress-response

import http from 'node:http';
import decompressResponse from 'decompress-response';

http.get('https://sindresorhus.com', response => {
	response = decompressResponse(response);
});

Returns the decompressed HTTP response stream.

Type: http.IncomingMessage

The HTTP incoming stream with compressed data.