Pass result of Julia `download` to memory instead of file?

Question

With Julia 1.6's download function, the typical behavior is to output to a file. How can I save the result directly to something in memory?

E.g. I'd like something like:

result = download(url)
contains(result,"hello")

Answer 1

As suggested by the help text for download, use the Downloads library; download can take an IOBuffer. Example:

result = String(take!(Downloads.download(url,IOBuffer())))