request gzip: write to compressed file

request-gzip-sandbox.js

  var request = require('request'),
      path = require('path'),
      fs = require('fs');

  var writezip = fs.createWriteStream(path.resolve(__dirname, 'temp.gz'));
  var writefile = fs.createWriteStream(path.resolve(__dirname, 'temp.html'));

  request({
      method: 'GET',
      uri: 'http://www.google.com',
      gzip: true
  }, function(error, response, body) {
      writezip.close();
      writefile.close();
  })
      .on('data', function(data) {
          writefile.write(data);
      })
      .on('response', function(response) {
          // unmodified http.IncomingMessage object 
          response.on('data', function(data) {
              // compressed data as it is received 
              console.log('received ' + data.length + ' bytes of compressed data')
              writezip.write(data);
          })
      })