Angular File Saver

Angular-file-saver is an AngularJS service that leverages FileSaver.js and Blob.js to implement the HTML5 W3C saveAs() interface in browsers that do not natively support it.

Dependencies

• AngularJS
• FileSaver.js
• Blob.js

File dist/angular-file-saver.bundle.js contains all required dependencies and grants access to both Blob.js and FileSaver.js polyfills via Blob and SaveAs services.

Installation

Using bower:

$ bower install angular-file-saver

Using npm:

$ npm install angular-file-saver

Basic usage

• Include the ngFileSaver module into your project;
• Pass both FileSaver and Blob services as dependencies;
• Create a Blob object passing an array with data as a first argument and an object with set of options as the second one: new Blob(['text'], { type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' });
• Invoke FileSaver.saveAs with the following arguments:
  • data - a Blob object instance;
  • filename;

Example

JS

function ExampleCtrl(FileSaver, Blob) {
  var vm = this;

  vm.val = {
    text: 'Hey ho lets go!'
  };

  vm.download = function(text) {

    var data = new Blob(['text'], { type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' });

    var config = {
      data: data,
      filename: 'textfile.txt'
    };

    FileSaver.saveAs(config);
  };
}

angular
  .module('fileSaverExample', ['ngFileSaver'])
  .controller('ExampleCtrl', ['FileSaver', 'Blob', ExampleCtrl]);

HTML

<div class="wrapper" ng-controller="ExampleCtrl as vm">
  <textarea
    ng-model="vm.val.text"
    ng-model-options="{ getterSetter: true }"
    name="textarea" rows="5" cols="20">
      Hey ho let's go!
  </textarea>
  <a href="" class="btn btn-dark btn-small" ng-click="vm.download(vm.val.text)">
    Download
  </a>
</div>

Demo

Demo on gh-pages

Demo

Download as a text file