How to buffer an HTTP response using the request module?

Question

I would like to stream the contents of an HTTP response to a variable. My goal is to get an image via request(), and store it in in MongoDB - but the image is alway

Answer 1

var options = {
    headers: {
        'Content-Length': contentLength,
        'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'
    },
    url: 'http://localhost:3000/lottery/lt',
    body: formData,
    encoding: null, // make response body to Buffer.
    method: 'POST'
};

set encoding to null, return Buffer.