bun-types/docs/guides/streams/node-readable-to-string.mdx

Type definitions and documentation for Bun, an incredibly fast JavaScript runtime

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title: Convert a Node.js Readable to a string
sidebarTitle: Readable to string
mode: center
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To convert a Node.js `Readable` stream to a string in Bun, you can create a new [`Response`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response) object with the stream as the body, then use [`response.text()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response/text) to read the stream into a string.

```ts
import { Readable } from "stream";
const stream = Readable.from([Buffer.from("Hello, world!")]);
const text = await new Response(stream).text();
console.log(text); // "Hello, world!"
```