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@derjanb
Last active October 21, 2020 12:26
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// ==UserScript==
// @name GM_download emulation
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description emulate GM_download functionality
// @require https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/raw/master/FileSaver.js
// @match http://tampermonkey.net/empty.html
// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest
// @copyright 2014, Jan Biniok
// ==/UserScript==
var GM_download_emu = function(url, name) {
GM_xmlhttpRequest({
method: 'GET',
url: url,
onload: function(r) {
var bb = new Blob([r.responseText], {type: 'text/plain'});
saveAs(bb, name);
}
});
};
GM_download_emu('http://tampermonkey.net/favicon.ico', 'favicon.ico' /* .exe .sh .crx*/);
@pyhedgehog
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text/plain? Maybe {type:parseResponseHeaders(r.responseHeaders)['content-type']}? Or at lease application/octet-stream?

@martixy
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martixy commented Mar 12, 2016

Or maybe responseType: "blob",, then saveAs(r.response, name);.
You see, this version doesn't really work in some cases(images, so far as I've discovered).

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