I have written code to download a video uploaded to amazon s3 using aws javascript sdk. Everything works fine but for some videos open up in the browser and start playing. Here is the code below:
View:
<a href="#" ng-click="downloadVideo(video)">Download Video</a>
Controller:
$scope.downloadVideo = function (video) {
videoLocation = video.video_location;
var bucketPath = videoLocation.substring(0, videoLocation.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);
bucketPath = bucketPath.substring(0, bucketPath.length - 1);
var fileName = videoLocation.substring(videoLocation.lastIndexOf("/") + 1, videoLocation.length);
var videoSignedUrl = VideoFactory.downloadVideo(bucketPath,fileName);
$window.open(videoSignedUrl);
}
VideoFactory :
downloadVideo: function (bucketPath,fileName) {
bucketName = aws.bucket_name;
options = {
accessKeyId : 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
secretAccessKey : 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
region : 'XXXXXX'
}
var params = {
Bucket: bucketName + '/'+ bucketPath, Key: fileName, Expires: 60
};
var s3 = new AWS.S3(options);
var url = s3.getSignedUrl('getObject', params);
return url;
}
So when videos open up in a new window they start getting downloaded at the bottom of the browsers. But for some unknown videos they open up in a window and start playing. How can i stop this in angularjs. What is the suggested workaround and how do others handle this kind of issues??
I did google but most of the stackoverflow answers here say to open files in window and browsers automatically downloads it.