Downloading with :httpc request questions

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Download - the easiest way to download files from the internet

Hey there! I wrote a download elixir package which does exactly what its name about - an easy way to download files. I saw solutions about how to do it with HTTPoison but these solutions have disadvantages: The whole response is loading to the RAM, and only after then is going to the File.write/1. You have to choose async HTTPoison request to escape high memory consumption. There is no restriction of the file size to download. If you handle, saying, user input and then you’re trying to downl…

which seems to be doing almost all that’d be needed in my case but it’s a few more dependencies pulled for something that feels like it should be much simpler