how to load an image from url into buffer in nodejs

Question

I am new to nodejs and am trying to set up a server where i get the exif information from an image. My images are on S3 so I want to be able to just pass in the s3 url as a

Answer 1

Try setting up request like this:

var request = require('request').defaults({ encoding: null });
request.get(s3Url, function (err, res, body) {
      //process exif here
});

Setting encoding to null will cause request to output a buffer instead of a string.