Tails a file that served on specified URL.

index.js

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

const URL = "http://blabla/server.log";
const FILE = "server.log";

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

 

setInterval(() => { 
   download(URL, FILE);
   console.log("downloaded");
}, 15 * 1000);

tail.sh

tail -f -n 10 server.log