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Created December 14, 2015 09:12
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var saveData = (function () {
var a = document.createElement("a");
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.style = "display: none";
return function (data, fileName) {
var json = JSON.stringify(data),
blob = new Blob([json], {type: "octet/stream"}),
url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
a.href = url;
a.download = fileName;
a.click();
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
};
}());
var data = { x: 42, s: "hello, world", d: new Date() },
fileName = "my-download.json";
saveData(data, fileName);
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