2022年底编辑:

Node v18及以上版本自带自带的Fetch API支持。使用它。

最初的回答:

对于支持承诺的节点，与其他答案相比，一个简单的(部分)Fetch API的Node shim只需要少量额外的代码:

const fs = require(`fs`);
const http = require(`http`);
const https = require(`https`);

module.exports = function fetch(url) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const data = [];
    const client = url.startsWith("https") ? https : http;
    client
      .request(url, (res) => {
        res.on(`data`, (chunk) => data.push(chunk));
        res.on(`end`, () => {
          const asBytes = Buffer.concat(data);
          const asString = asBytes.toString(`utf8`);
          resolve({
            arrayBuffer: async () => asBytes,
            json: async () => JSON.parse(asString),
            text: async () => asString,
          });
        });
        res.on(`error`, (e) => reject(e));
      })
      .end();
  });
};

你可以用它来做任何你需要的事情，使用普通的fetch语法:

const fetch = require(`./tiny-fetch.js`);

fetch(`https://placekitten.com/200/300`)
  .then(res => res.arrayBuffer())
  .then(bytes => fs.writeFileSync(`kitten.jpg`, bytes))
  .catch(e => console.error(e));

fetch(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1`)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(obj => console.log(obj))
  .catch(e => console.error(e));

// etc.

您可以创建一个HTTP GET请求，并将其响应管道到可写文件流:

const http = require('http'); // or 'https' for https:// URLs
const fs = require('fs');

const file = fs.createWriteStream("file.jpg");
const request = http.get("http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/J---aiyznGQ/mqdefault.jpg", function(response) {
   response.pipe(file);

   // after download completed close filestream
   file.on("finish", () => {
       file.close();
       console.log("Download Completed");
   });
});

如果您希望支持在命令行上收集信息(比如指定目标文件或目录或URL)，可以使用类似Commander的工具。

更详细的解释在https://sebhastian.com/nodejs-download-file/

我更喜欢request()，因为你可以同时使用http和https。

request('http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/J---aiyznGQ/mqdefault.jpg')
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('cat.jpg'))

就像Michelle Tilley说的，但是要有适当的控制流:

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

var download = function(url, dest, cb) {
  var file = fs.createWriteStream(dest);
  http.get(url, function(response) {
    response.pipe(file);
    file.on('finish', function() {
      file.close(cb);
    });
  });
}

如果不等待finish事件，幼稚的脚本可能最终得到一个不完整的文件。

编辑:感谢@Augusto Roman指出cb应该传递到文件。Close，没有显式调用。

如果您正在使用express，请使用res.download()方法。否则使用fs模块。

app.get('/read-android', function(req, res) {
   var file = "/home/sony/Documents/docs/Android.apk";
    res.download(file) 
}); 

(or)

   function readApp(req,res) {
      var file = req.fileName,
          filePath = "/home/sony/Documents/docs/";
      fs.exists(filePath, function(exists){
          if (exists) {     
            res.writeHead(200, {
              "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream",
              "Content-Disposition" : "attachment; filename=" + file});
            fs.createReadStream(filePath + file).pipe(res);
          } else {
            res.writeHead(400, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
            res.end("ERROR File does NOT Exists.ipa");
          }
        });  
    }

const download = (url, path) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
http.get(url, response => {
    const statusCode = response.statusCode;

    if (statusCode !== 200) {
        return reject('Download error!');
    }

    const writeStream = fs.createWriteStream(path);
    response.pipe(writeStream);

    writeStream.on('error', () => reject('Error writing to file!'));
    writeStream.on('finish', () => writeStream.close(resolve));
});}).catch(err => console.error(err));