# Convert a Node.js Readable to a string (/docs/guides/streams/node-readable-to-string)

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Related: [Convert a ReadableStream to a string](/docs/guides/streams/to-string.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to JSON](/docs/guides/streams/to-json.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to a Blob](/docs/guides/streams/to-blob.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to a Buffer](/docs/guides/streams/to-buffer.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to an ArrayBuffer](/docs/guides/streams/to-arraybuffer.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to a Uint8Array](/docs/guides/streams/to-typedarray.md)

To convert a Node.js `Readable` stream to a string in Bun, create a [`Response`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response) with the stream as the body, then call [`response.text()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response/text).

```ts
import { Readable } from "stream";
const stream = Readable.from([Buffer.from("Hello, world!")]);
const text = await new Response(stream).text();
console.log(text); // "Hello, world!"
```