I am trying to download the image and save it in my server from the url address. So for example I make a POST request with URL of the image. I download the image and I save it in my server. The problem comes when I need to figure our the extension of the image. Right now it works staticaly only for jpg files, but it should work for png aswell. How can I find out the extension of the file before saving it?
One way would be to get the extension from the url itself, but not all urls will have the extension , for example: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/winter-in-the-sequoias-picture-id1292624259
This is the code that I have made right now. It works, however how I said, its static and only working for jpg:
var config = {
responseType: 'stream'
};
async function getImage(url) {
let time = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)
let resp = await axios.get(url, config)
resp.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(time+'.jpg')) // here I need to get the image extension isntead of static '.jpg'
}
You can use response headers for that. The Content-Type header should tell you the type of the file and with Content-Disposition you can get the filename with extension.
In your code you can access these headers like this
resp.headers['content-type'];
resp.headers['content-disposition'];
I'd suggest using a module such as mime to get the extension from the content-type.
Complete example:
const axios = require('axios');
const fs = require('fs');
const mime = require('mime');
var config = {
responseType: 'stream'
};
async function getImage(url) {
let time = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)
let resp = await axios.get(url, config)
const contentLength = resp.headers['content-length'];
const contentType = resp.headers['content-type'];
const extension = mime.extension(contentType);
console.log(`Content type: ${contentType}`);
console.log(`Extension: ${extension}`);
const fileName = time + "." + extension;
console.log(`Writing ${contentLength} bytes to file ${fileName}`);
resp.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(fileName));
}
const url = 'https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/winter-in-the-sequoias-picture-id1292624259';
getImage(url)
This will give an output somewhat like:
Content type: image/jpeg Extension: jpeg Writing 544353 bytes to file 1638867349.jpeg