# Convert a ReadableStream to a string (/guides/streams/to-string)

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

Bun provides several conveniences for reading the contents of a [`ReadableStream`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream) into other formats. To read a stream into a string, call its `text()` method.

```ts
const stream = new ReadableStream();
const str = await stream.text();
```

`Bun.readableStreamToText(stream)` does the same thing, but is deprecated in favor of `stream.text()`.

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