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// helpers.js const fs = require('fs') const request = require('request') const sanityClient = require('@sanity/client') const client = sanityClient({ // ... }) const download = (url, path, callback) => { //the "request" library helps us make HTTP requests in node //though it is deprecated, it works for our purposes. //more here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/request request.head(url, (err, res, body) => { request(url) //using Node's .pipe() method, we connect the //readable stream to a writeable stream. .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(path)) .on('close', callback) }) } module.exports = { client, download }