# Convert a ReadableStream to a Buffer (/docs/guides/streams/to-buffer)

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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 an ArrayBuffer](/docs/guides/streams/to-arraybuffer.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to a Uint8Array](/docs/guides/streams/to-typedarray.md), [Convert a ReadableStream to an array of chunks](/docs/guides/streams/to-array.md)

To convert a [`ReadableStream`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream) to a `Buffer`, read its contents into an [`ArrayBuffer`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer) with `Bun.readableStreamToArrayBuffer`, then create a [`Buffer`](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html) that points to it.

```ts
const stream = new ReadableStream();
const arrBuf = await Bun.readableStreamToArrayBuffer(stream);
const nodeBuf = Buffer.from(arrBuf);
```

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See [Bun's other `ReadableStream` conversion functions](/runtime/utils#bun-readablestreamto).