how to load an image from url into buffer in nodejs

Question

I am new to nodejs and am trying to set up a server where i get the exif information from an image. My images are on S3 so I want to be able to just pass in the s3 url as a

Answer 1

Use the axios:

const response = await axios.get(url,  { responseType: 'arraybuffer' })
const buffer = Buffer.from(response.data, "utf-8")