How to buffer an HTTP response using the request module?

Question

I would like to stream the contents of an HTTP response to a variable. My goal is to get an image via request(), and store it in in MongoDB - but the image is alway

Answer 1

Have you tried piping this?:

request.get('http://google.com/doodle.png').pipe(request.put('{your mongo path}'))

(Though not familiar enough with Mongo to know if it supports direct inserts of binary data like this, I know CouchDB and Riak do.)