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Axios error: … .data.pipe is not a function

So I am basically trying to use axios to download a image from a url, but I get this error:

TypeError: streamResponse.data.pipe is not a function

My function for doing this image download is below (note that this is inside a class):

JavaScript

I assume that the adapter for a stream response is the xhr one. Anyways, I have tried both adapters and both gives the exact same error. Both requests does happen though (I can see them in the devtools).

And so there’s no confusion, I have the adapters imported at the top of the file:

const httpAdapter = require('axios/lib/adapters/http');
const xhrAdapter = require('axios/lib/adapters/xhr');

What could I be doing wrong here?

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Answer

Got it working by sending the download request over to the main thread. Don’t know why, but seems you can’t access the axios data from a stream in the renderer.js file. Got it working now though after having a look here:

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-main

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