[node.js] Writing image to local server

Update

The accepted answer was good for last year but today I would use the package everyone else uses: https://github.com/mikeal/request

Original

I'm trying to grab google's logo and save it to my server with node.js.

This is what I have right now and doesn't work:

        var options = {
            host: 'google.com',
            port: 80,
            path: '/images/logos/ps_logo2.png'
        };

        var request = http.get(options);

        request.on('response', function (res) {
            res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                fs.writeFile(dir+'image.png', chunk, function (err) {
                    if (err) throw err;
                    console.log('It\'s saved!');
                });
            });
        });

How can I get this working?

Cleanest way of saving image locally using request:

const request = require('request');
request('http://link/to/your/image/file.png').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('fileName.png'))

If you need to add authentication token in headers do this:

const request = require('request');
request({
        url: 'http://link/to/your/image/file.png',
        headers: {
            "X-Token-Auth": TOKEN,
        }
    }).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('filename.png'))                    

I have an easier solution using fs.readFileSync(./my_local_image_path.jpg)

This is for reading images from Azure Cognative Services's Vision API

const subscriptionKey = 'your_azure_subscrition_key';
const uriBase = // **MUST change your location (mine is 'eastus')**
    'https://eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/vision/v2.0/analyze';

// Request parameters.
const params = {
    'visualFeatures': 'Categories,Description,Adult,Faces',
    'maxCandidates': '2',
    'details': 'Celebrities,Landmarks',
    'language': 'en'
};

const options = {
    uri: uriBase,
    qs: params,
    body: fs.readFileSync(./my_local_image_path.jpg),
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
        'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' : subscriptionKey
    }
};

request.post(options, (error, response, body) => {
if (error) {
    console.log('Error: ', error);
    return;
}
let jsonString = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(body), null, '  ');
body = JSON.parse(body);
if (body.code) // err
{
    console.log("AZURE: " + body.message)
}

console.log('Response\n' + jsonString);

This thread is old but I wanted to do same things with the https://github.com/mikeal/request package.

Here a working example

var fs      = require('fs');
var request = require('request');
// Or with cookies
// var request = require('request').defaults({jar: true});

request.get({url: 'https://someurl/somefile.torrent', encoding: 'binary'}, function (err, response, body) {
  fs.writeFile("/tmp/test.torrent", body, 'binary', function(err) {
    if(err)
      console.log(err);
    else
      console.log("The file was saved!");
  }); 
});

How about this?

var http = require('http'), 
fs = require('fs'), 
options;

options = {
    host: 'www.google.com' , 
    port: 80,
    path: '/images/logos/ps_logo2.png'
}

var request = http.get(options, function(res){

//var imagedata = ''
//res.setEncoding('binary')

var chunks = [];

res.on('data', function(chunk){

    //imagedata += chunk
    chunks.push(chunk)

})

res.on('end', function(){

    //fs.writeFile('logo.png', imagedata, 'binary', function(err){

    var buffer = Buffer.concat(chunks)
    fs.writeFile('logo.png', buffer, function(err){
        if (err) throw err
        console.log('File saved.')
    })

})

I suggest you use http-request, so that even redirects are managed.

var http = require('http-request');
var options = {url: 'http://localhost/foo.pdf'};
http.get(options, '/path/to/foo.pdf', function (error, result) {
    if (error) {
        console.error(error);
    } else {
        console.log('File downloaded at: ' + result.file);
    }
});