How to upload an image to Google Cloud Storage from an image url in Node?

Question

Given an image url, how can I upload that image to Google Cloud Storage for image processing using Node.js?

Answer 1

It's a 2 steps process:

• Download file locally using request or fetch.

• Upload to GCL with the official library.

  var fs = require('fs');
  var gcloud = require('gcloud');
  
  // Authenticating on a per-API-basis. You don't need to do this if you auth on a
  // global basis (see Authentication section above).
  
  var gcs = gcloud.storage({
    projectId: 'my-project',
    keyFilename: '/path/to/keyfile.json'
  });
  
  // Create a new bucket.
  gcs.createBucket('my-new-bucket', function(err, bucket) {
    if (!err) {
      // "my-new-bucket" was successfully created.
    }
  });
  
  // Reference an existing bucket.
  var bucket = gcs.bucket('my-existing-bucket');                
  var localReadStream = fs.createReadStream('/photos/zoo/zebra.jpg');
  var remoteWriteStream = bucket.file('zebra.jpg').createWriteStream();
  localReadStream.pipe(remoteWriteStream)
    .on('error', function(err) {})
    .on('finish', function() {
      // The file upload is complete.
    });
  

If you would like to save the file as a jpeg image, you will need to edit the remoteWriteStream stream and add custom metadata:

var image = bucket.file('zebra.jpg');
localReadStream.pipe(image.createWriteStream({
    metadata: {
      contentType: 'image/jpeg',
      metadata: {
        custom: 'metadata'
      }
    }
}))

I found this while digging through this documentation