在我的例子中，响应头的内容类型是content - type: text/plain。所以，我已经从Buffer读取了数据:

let data = [];
stream.on('data', (chunk) => {
 console.log(Buffer.from(chunk).toString())
 data.push(Buffer.from(chunk).toString())
});

这对我来说是有效的，并且基于Node v6.7.0文档:

let output = '';
stream.on('readable', function() {
    let read = stream.read();
    if (read !== null) {
        // New stream data is available
        output += read.toString();
    } else {
        // Stream is now finished when read is null.
        // You can callback here e.g.:
        callback(null, output);
    }
});

stream.on('error', function(err) {
  callback(err, null);
})

另一种方法是将流转换为promise(参考下面的示例)，然后使用then(或await)将解析值分配给变量。

function streamToString (stream) {
  const chunks = [];
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    stream.on('data', (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk)));
    stream.on('error', (err) => reject(err));
    stream.on('end', () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8')));
  })
}

const result = await streamToString(stream)

简单易用的流行(每周超过500万次下载)和轻量级的get-stream库:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-stream

const fs = require('fs');
const getStream = require('get-stream');

(async () => {
    const stream = fs.createReadStream('unicorn.txt');
    console.log(await getStream(stream)); //output is string
})();

还有一个是使用承诺的字符串:

function getStream(stream) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    const chunks = [];

    # Buffer.from is required if chunk is a String, see comments
    stream.on("data", chunk => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk)));
    stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString()));
  });
}

用法:

const stream = fs.createReadStream(__filename);
getStream(stream).then(r=>console.log(r));

如果需要，删除. tostring()以用于二进制数据。

更新:@AndreiLED正确地指出了字符串的问题。我不能得到一个流返回字符串与节点的版本，但api指出这是可能的。

我通常使用这个简单的函数将流转换为字符串:

function streamToString(stream, cb) {
  const chunks = [];
  stream.on('data', (chunk) => {
    chunks.push(chunk.toString());
  });
  stream.on('end', () => {
    cb(chunks.join(''));
  });
}

使用的例子:

let stream = fs.createReadStream('./myFile.foo');
streamToString(stream, (data) => {
  console.log(data);  // data is now my string variable
});