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

Use the request library.

request('', function(err, response, buffer) {
    // Do something
});

Also, node-image-headers might be of interest to you. It sounds like it takes a stream, so it might not even have to download the full image from S3 in order to process the headers.

Updated with correct callback signature.