This is the most general way of processing the response from the server - you receive the raw bytes as they come in, and you can do whatever you want with them.
Examples
GET(
"https://github.com/jeroen/data/raw/gh-pages/diamonds.json",
write_stream(function(x) {
print(length(x))
length(x)
})
)
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#> Response [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeroen/data/gh-pages/diamonds.json]
#> Date: 2026-02-13 21:42
#> Status: 200
#> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
#> <EMPTY BODY>