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Scott Brenner

AWS Fetch image from URL and upload to S3 example in NodeJS

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This example display how to fetch an image from remote source (URL) and then upload this image to a S3 bucket.

  1. AWS Fetch image from URL and upload to S3 example in NodeJS

Fetch image from URL then upload to s3 Example

This example display how to fetch an image from remote source (URL) and then upload this image to a S3 bucket.

Use-cases

  • Store a user's profile picture from another service.

How it works

We first fetch the data from the given URL and then call the S3 PutObjectCommand to upload it to the bucket.

const response = await fetch(event.image_url);
const buffer = Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer());
await s3.send(new PutObjectCommand({ Bucket, Key, Body: buffer }));

Setup

Install the dependencies by running:

npm install

The S3 bucket used to store the files is created for you as part of this stack, with a CloudFormation-generated, globally-unique name — no manual setup is required.

resources:
  Resources:
    UploadBucket:
      Type: AWS::S3::Bucket

Deploy

In order to deploy the you endpoint simply run

serverless deploy

The expected result should be similar to:

Deploying "fetch-file-and-store-in-s3" to stage "dev" (us-west-1)

✔ Service deployed to stack fetch-file-and-store-in-s3-dev (42s)

functions:
  save: fetch-file-and-store-in-s3-dev-save (1.2 kB)

Usage

You can now send an HTTP request directly to the endpoint using a tool like curl

serverless invoke --function save --log --data='{ "image_url": "https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/open_graph/github-mark.png", "key": "github.png"}'

The expected result should be similar to:

"Saved"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
START RequestId: c658859d-bd11e6-ac1f-c7a7ee5bd7f3 Version: $LATEST
END RequestId: c658859d-bd11e6-ac1f-c7a7ee5bd7f3
REPORT RequestId: c658859d-bd11e6-ac1f-c7a7ee5bd7f3	Duration: 436.94 ms	Billed Duration: 500 ms 	Memory Size: 1024 MB	Max Memory Used: 29 MB

Scaling

By default, AWS Lambda limits the total concurrent executions across all functions within a given region to 100. The default limit is a safety limit that protects you from costs due to potential runaway or recursive functions during initial development and testing. To increase this limit above the default, follow the steps in To request a limit increase for concurrent executions.

Contents

  • Fetch image from URL then upload to s3 Example
  • Use-cases
  • How it works
  • Setup
  • Deploy
  • Usage
  • Scaling

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