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# react-native-fetch-blob [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/react-native-fetch-blob.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-fetch-blob) ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/PR-Welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square) [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/l/express.svg?maxAge=2592000&style=flat-square)]()
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# react-native-fetch-blob [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/react-native-fetch-blob.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-fetch-blob) ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/PR-Welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square) [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/l/express.svg?maxAge=2592000&style=flat-square)]() [![npm](https://img.shields.io/badge/inProgress-0.7.0-yellow.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob/milestones)
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A module provides upload, download, and files access API. Supports file stream read/write for process large files.
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## [Please check our github for updated document](https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob)
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**Why do we need this**
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React Native does not support `Blob` object at this moment, which means if you're going to send/receive binary data via `fetch` API, that might not work as you expect. See [[fetch] Does fetch with blob() marshal data across the bridge?](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/854).
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React Native does not support `Blob` object at this moment, which means if you're going to send/receive binary data via `fetch` API, that might not work as you expect. See [facebook/react-native#854](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/854).
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For some use cases, you might get into trouble. For example, displaying an image that requires a specific field in headers (ex. "Authorization : Bearer ...") or body, so you can't just pass the image uri to `Image` component because that will probably returns a 401 response. Or you're going to upload binary data which generated from JS, the server will get an empry body due to [this issue](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/854). With help of APIs provided by this module, you can send HTTP request with any headers, and decide how to handle the response/reqeust data without worry about if it is not supported by `fetch` API. The response data can be just simply converted into BASE64 string, or stored to a file directly so that you can read it by using file access APIs such as readFile, readStream.
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This module was designed to be a substitution of `Blob`, there's a set of APIs including basic file system CRUD method, and file stream reader/writer. Also it has a special `fetch` implementation that supports binary request/response body.
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**Pre v0.5.0 Users**
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**Backward Compatible**
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All updates are `backward-compatible` generally you don't have to change existing code unless you're going to use new APIs. In latest version (v0.5.0), new APIs can either `upload` or `download` files simply using a file path. It's much more memory efficent in some use case. We've also introduced `fs` APIs for access files, and `file stream` API that helps you read/write files (especially for **large ones**), see [Examples](#user-content-usage) bellow. This module implements native methods, supports both Android (uses awesome native library [AsyncHttpClient](https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client])) and IOS.
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All updates are `backward-compatible` generally you don't have to change existing code unless you're going to use new APIs. But we recommend pre `0.5.0` users consider upgrade the package to latest version, since we have introduced new APIs can either `upload` or `download` files simply using a file path. It's much more memory efficent in some use case. We've also introduced `fs` APIs for access files, and `file stream` API that helps you read/write files (especially for **large ones**), see [Examples](#user-content-recipes) bellow. This module implements native methods, supports both Android (uses awesome native library [AsyncHttpClient](https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client])) and IOS.
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## TOC
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* [Installation](#user-content-installation)
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* [Guide](#user-content-guide)
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* [Recipes](#user-content-recipes)
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* [Download file](#user-content-download-example--fetch-files-that-needs-authorization-token)
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* [Upload file](#user-content-upload-example--dropbox-files-upload-api)
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* [Multipart/form upload](#user-content-multipartform-data-example--post-form-data-with-file-and-data)
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Beginning in Android 6.0 (API level 23), users grant permissions to apps while the app is running, not when they install the app. So adding permissions in `AndroidManifest.xml` won't work in Android 6.0 devices. To grant permissions in runtime, you might use modules like [react-native-android-permissions](https://github.com/lucasferreira/react-native-android-permissions).
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## Guide
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## Recipes
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What if you want to upload a file in some field ? Just like [upload a file from storage](#user-content-upload-a-file-from-storage) example, wrap `data` by `wrap` API (this feature is only available for `version >= v0.5.0`)
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What if you want to upload a file in some field ? Just like [upload a file from storage](#user-content-upload-a-file-from-storage) example, wrap `data` by `wrap` API (this feature is only available for `version >= v0.5.0`). On version >= `0.6.2`, it is possible to set custom MIME type when appending file to form data.
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data : RNFetchBlob.wrap(RNFetchBlob.fs.asset('default-ringtone.mp3'))
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In `version >= 0.4.2` it is possible to know the upload/download progress. On Anroid, only download progress is supported. See [wiki](https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob/wiki/Fetch-API#fetchprogresseventlistenerpromisernfetchblobresponse) for more information.
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File access APIs were made when developing `v0.5.0`, which helping us write tests, and was not planned to be a part of this module. However I realized that, it's hard to find a great solution to manage cached files, every one who use this moudle may need those APIs for there cases.
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File access APIs were made when developing `v0.5.0`, which helping us write tests, and was not planned to be a part of this module. However we realized that, it's hard to find a great solution to manage cached files, every one who use this moudle may need these APIs for there cases.
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Before get started using file APIs we recommend read [Differences between File Source](https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob/wiki/File-System-Access-API#differences-between-file-source) first.
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- [asset (0.6.2)](https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob/wiki/File-System-Access-API#assetfilenamestringstring)
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| 0.6.2 | Add support of asset file and camera roll files, Support custom MIME type when sending multipart request, thanks @smartt |
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