Node.js copy remote file to server

Question

Right now I\'m using this script in PHP. I pass it the image and size (large/medium/small) and if it\'s on my server it returns the link, otherwise it copies it from a remot

Answer 1

If you can't use remote user's password for some reasons and need to use the identity key (RSA) for authentication, then programmatically executing the scp with child_process is good to go

const { exec } = require('child_process');

exec(`scp -i /path/to/key username@example.com:/remote/path/to/file /local/path`, 
     (error, stdout, stderr) => {

    if (error) {
      console.log(`There was an error ${error}`);
    }

      console.log(`The stdout is ${stdout}`);
      console.log(`The stderr is ${stderr}`);
});