Download file from url and upload it to AWS S3 without saving - node.js

Question

I'm writing an application which downloads images from a url and then uploads it to an S3 bucket using the aws-sdk.

Perviously I was just downloading images and saving them to disk like this.

request.head(url, function(err, res, body){

    request(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(image_path));

});

And then uploading the images to AWS S3 like this

fs.readFile(image_path, function(err, data){
    s3.client.putObject({
        Bucket: 'myBucket',
        Key: image_path,
        Body: data
        ACL:'public-read'
    }, function(err, resp) {
        if(err){
            console.log("error in s3 put object cb");
        } else { 
            console.log(resp);
            console.log("successfully added image to s3");
        }
    });
});

But I would like to skip the part where I save the image to disk. Is there some way I can pipe the response from request(url) to a variable and then upload that?

Answer 1

Here's some javascript that does this nicely:

    var options = {
        uri: uri,
        encoding: null
    };
    request(options, function(error, response, body) {
        if (error || response.statusCode !== 200) { 
            console.log("failed to get image");
            console.log(error);
        } else {
            s3.putObject({
                Body: body,
                Key: path,
                Bucket: 'bucket_name'
            }, function(error, data) { 
                if (error) {
                    console.log("error downloading image to s3");
                } else {
                    console.log("success uploading to s3");
                }
            }); 
        }   
    });