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

Nowadays, you can easily retreive a file in binary with Node 8, RequestJS and async await. I used the following:

const buffer = await request.get(pdf.url, { encoding: null }); 

The response was a Buffer containing the bytes of the pdf. Much cleaner than big option objects and old skool callbacks.