From 8f4e618366f4ddf8aaa98373b82b4d32c31d4327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NoahMaizels <noahmaizels@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:18:17 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: correct read.js API calls in multi-author-blog guide
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Two bugs in the read.js code block:

1. reader.download() returns { payload, feedIndex } with no reference
   property — replace with reader.downloadReference() which returns
   { reference, feedIndex } as needed by bee.downloadFile().

2. bee.downloadFile() returns data as a bee-js Bytes object, not an
   ArrayBuffer — new TextDecoder().decode(authorsData.data) throws;
   use authorsData.data.bytes to get the underlying Buffer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs/develop/multi-author-blog.md | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/develop/multi-author-blog.md b/docs/develop/multi-author-blog.md
index 8709ddd4..493a15fd 100644
--- a/docs/develop/multi-author-blog.md
+++ b/docs/develop/multi-author-blog.md
@@ -786,12 +786,12 @@ const cfg = JSON.parse(readFileSync("config.json", "utf-8"));
 const indexTopic = Topic.fromString(cfg.topics.index);
 const indexOwner = new EthAddress(cfg.admin.owner);
 const indexReader = bee.makeFeedReader(indexTopic, indexOwner);
-const indexResult = await indexReader.download();
+const indexResult = await indexReader.downloadReference();
 console.log("Index feed at index:", indexResult.feedIndex.toBigInt());
 
 // Download the authors.json manifest
 const authorsData = await bee.downloadFile(indexResult.reference);
-const authors = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(authorsData.data));
+const authors = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(authorsData.data.bytes));
 
 console.log(`\n${authors.length} authors in blog:\n`);
 
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ for (const author of authors) {
   const owner  = new EthAddress(author.owner);
   const reader = bee.makeFeedReader(topic, owner);
   try {
-    const result = await reader.download();
+    const result = await reader.downloadReference();
     console.log(`${author.name}`);
     console.log(`  Feed index: ${result.feedIndex.toBigInt()}`);
     console.log(`  URL: ${process.env.BEE_URL}/bzz/${author.feedManifest}/`);
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ for (const author of authors) {
 const homeTopic  = Topic.fromString(cfg.topics.home);
 const homeOwner  = new EthAddress(cfg.admin.owner);
 const homeReader = bee.makeFeedReader(homeTopic, homeOwner);
-const homeResult = await homeReader.download();
+const homeResult = await homeReader.downloadReference();
 console.log(`\nHomepage feed at index: ${homeResult.feedIndex.toBigInt()}`);
 console.log(`Homepage URL: ${process.env.BEE_URL}/bzz/${cfg.manifests.home}/`);
 ```