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FileSaver.js
JavaScript2012–2019
eligrey / FileSaver.js

FileSaver.js

An HTML5 saveAs() FileSaver implementation

11Distinct people
12Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
22KGitHub stars
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What it is

An HTML5 saveAs() FileSaver implementation

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

Impressive web app! Runs fine in my not-recently-updated browser. Really like the Save options, there's 'save offline to file'; 'save offline in browser' (I presume HTML5…

exodust used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-19 13:40:34 UTC to 2019-08-30 04:34:39 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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This doesn't seem to be doing downloading in a streaming manner, as indicated by its use of my old "file-saver"[1] library. Edit: Originally thought this also did encryption without streaming. Nowadays I would recommend using Penumbra[2] (another library I've worked on) with StreamSaver.js for streaming file encryption/decryption/downloading. 1. https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js 2. https://github.com/transcend-io/penumbra
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exodust·Feb 1, 2017Recommendation phrase
Impressive web app! Runs fine in my not-recently-updated browser. Really like the Save options, there's 'save offline to file'; 'save offline in browser' (I presume HTML5 storage); and save online. Save offline to file is really nice, and I wasn't aware could be done. It got my Googling, and I found this: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js Which I'm guessing is what people use these days when needing 'save as file' from the browser. I wanted this about 3 years ago and gave up, settling on saving the JSON to an Amazon bucket as the only option. I always wanted save as file though, just because I love local storage options in an age of cloud storage. I will now revist my old web app and try to implement this.
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