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direct upload string from browser to s3 without local file

I am using javascript, node.js and aws sdk. There are many examples about uploading existing files to S3 directly with signed URL, but now I am trying to upload strings and create a file in S3, without any local saved files. Any suggestion, please?

Please follow the example here
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3.html#putObject-property
Convert your string to buffer and pass it. It should work.

Have not tried amazon-web-services, amazon-s3 or aws-sdk, though if you are able to upload File or FormData objects you can create either or both at JavaScript and upload the object.
// create a `File` object
const file = new File(["abc"], "file.txt", {type:"text/plain"});
// create a `Blob` object
// will be converted to a `File` object when passed to `FormData`
const blob = new Blob(["abc"], {type:"text/plain"});
const fd = new FormData();
fd.append("file", blob, "file.txt");

You could try something like this:
var fs = require('fs');
exports.upload = function (req, res) {
var file = req.files.file;
fs.readFile(file.path, function (err, data) {
if (err) throw err; // Something went wrong!
var s3bucket = new AWS.S3({params: {Bucket: 'mybucketname'}});
s3bucket.createBucket(function () {
var params = {
Key: file.originalFilename, //file.name doesn't exist as a property
Body: data
};
s3bucket.upload(params, function (err, data) {
// Whether there is an error or not, delete the temp file
fs.unlink(file.path, function (err) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
}
console.log('Temp File Delete');
});
console.log("PRINT FILE:", file);
if (err) {
console.log('ERROR MSG: ', err);
res.status(500).send(err);
} else {
console.log('Successfully uploaded data');
res.status(200).end();
}
});
});
});
};

Receiving "Uploading file too fast!" error from Imgur API

I created a node.js server that uses busboy to take requests, and pipe the files to Imgur for upload. However, I keep getting an "Uploading file too fast!" response from Imgur, and I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Here is the code snippet involving busboy:
var express = require('express');
var Busboy = require('busboy');
var fs = require('fs');
var request = require('request-promise');
var router = express.Router();
router.post('/u', function(req, res, next) {
var busboy = new Busboy({headers: req.headers});
busboy.on('file', function(fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype) {
if(fieldname == 'image') {
var options = {
uri: 'https://api.imgur.com/3/image',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Client-ID ' + clientID // put client id here
},
form: {
image: file,
type: 'file'
}
};
request(options)
.then(function(parsedBody) {
console.log(parsedBody);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log(err);
});
}
});
busboy.on('field', function(fieldname, val, fieldnameTruncated, valTruncated) {
console.log('field');
});
busboy.on('finish', function() {
res.status(200).end();
});
req.pipe(busboy);
});
As you can see I'm piping the request file directly into my request for imgur. Providing a ReadStream by simply saving the file to disc and then using fs.createReadStream() works perfectly, so I'm not really sure why trying to pipe directly from request to request gives me the error. The exact response I'm getting from Imgur is:
StatusCodeError: 400 - {"data":{"error":"Uploading file too fast!","request":"\/3\/image","method":"POST"},"success":false,"status":400}
If anyone has encountered this before, it would be helpful...

The first issue is that you should be using formData instead of form for file uploads. Otherwise, the request library won't send the correct HTTP request.
The second issue is that the stream object won't have the correct content length until it's fully processed. We can buffer the data ourselves and pass it after the initial file stream from busboy has processed.*
This gives us something that looks like
var express = require('express');
var Busboy = require('busboy');
var fs = require('fs');
var request = require('request-promise');
var router = express.Router();
router.post('/u', function(req, res, next) {
var busboy = new Busboy({headers: req.headers});
busboy.on('file', function(fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype) {
if(fieldname == 'image') {
// the buffer
file.fileRead = [];
file.on('data', function(data) {
// add to the buffer as data comes in
this.fileRead.push(data);
});
file.on('end', function() {
// create a new stream with our buffered data
var finalBuffer = Buffer.concat(this.fileRead);
var options = {
uri: 'https://api.imgur.com/3/image',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Client-ID ' + clientID // put client id here
},
formData: {
image: finalBuffer,
type: 'file'
}
};
request(options)
.then(function(parsedBody) {
console.log(parsedBody);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log(err);
});
});
}
});
busboy.on('field', function(fieldname, val, fieldnameTruncated, valTruncated) {
console.log('field');
});
busboy.on('finish', function() {
res.status(200).end();
});
req.pipe(busboy);
});
Code for the buffering is from http://thau.me/2014/02/nodejs-streaming-files-to-amazons3/
Lastly, you may want to consider using the request library, as the request-promise library discourages the use of streams. See the github repo for more details: https://github.com/request/request-promise

React-Native send image file with XHR to Api backend

We are building a photo upload feature in our application, which is built using react native.
I am using this: https://github.com/marcshilling/react-native-image-picker
Upon selecting the image, I get the URI of the image, something like this:
file:///storage/151A-3C1B/Pictures/image-c47d8624-8530-43df-873e-e31c2d27d0e9.jpg
I can also get the base64 encoded string of the image, but I do not want to deal with base64, since it slows down the app and the result is about 1/3 bigger request.
So my question is, I have the URI like above, how can I send the contents of the file to my API backend? It expects multipart/form-data, the name "photo".
I wanted to try with this:
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('photo', CONTENTS);
But I do not know how to get the contents of the file, or how to pass the file URI to the formData object, so the contents would be sent, not the URI string itself. Any help please?

You can try something like this. It worked for me :
// api.js file
'use strict';
import request from 'superagent';
import {NativeModules} from 'react-native';
var api = (method, URL) => {
var r = request(method, apiURL);
return r;
}
api.uploadPhoto = (fileName, fileUri, uri, callback) => {
var upload = {
uri: fileUri, // either an 'assets-library' url (for files from photo library) or an image dataURL
uploadUrl: // your backend url here,
fileName: fileName,
mimeType: 'image/jpeg',
headers: {},
data: {}
};
NativeModules.FileTransfer.upload(upload, (err, res) => {
console.log(err, res);
if (err || res.status !== 200) {
return callback(err || res.data || 'UNKNOWN NETWORK ERROR');
}
callback();
});
};
export default api;
// you can then call your action this way
'use strict';
import request from './api';
request.uploadPhoto('picture', uri, apiURL, (err) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
return;
}
});

This is an old post, but if it helps others this will do the trick:
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append("photo", {
uri: imageUri,
type: "image/jpg"
});
axios.post(serviceUrl, formData);

Create and Send Zip file -NODE JS

I'm trying to create and then send zip file to client. I know how to create it but I've got a problem with send it to client. I tried many ways.
I'm sending POST request from Client and as response I want to send a file.
This is my server-site example code
var Zip = require('node-zip');
router.post('/generator', function(req, res, next) {
var zip = new Zip;
zip.file('hello.txt', 'Hello, World!');
var options = {base64: false, compression:'DEFLATE'};
fs.writeFile('test1.zip', zip.generate(options), 'binary', function (error) {
console.log('wrote test1.zip', error);
});
res.setHeader('Content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=test1.zip');
res.download('test1.zip');
}
});
I also tried something like this:
res.setHeader('Content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=' + filename);
res.setHeader('Content-type', mimetype);
var filestream = fs.createReadStream(file);
filestream.pipe(res);
I tried to use such libraries as:
node-zip
archiver
Can anyone explain me how to do that ?

This module works fine too: https://www.npmjs.com/package/adm-zip
Example without creating temporary zip file in server:
var AdmZip = require('adm-zip');
router.get('/zipFilesAndSend', function(req, res) {
var zip = new AdmZip();
// add local file
zip.addLocalFile("./uploads/29/0046.xml");
// get everything as a buffer
var zipFileContents = zip.toBuffer();
const fileName = 'uploads.zip';
const fileType = 'application/zip';
res.writeHead(200, {
'Content-Disposition': `attachment; filename="${fileName}"`,
'Content-Type': fileType,
})
return res.end(zipFileContents);
});

Try this express-easy-zip npm package to generate a zip file from a local folder path and send it as a download to the client.
var zip = require('express-easy-zip');
var app = require('express')();
app.use(zip());
app.get('my-route/zip', async function(req, res) {
var dirPath = __dirname + "/uploads";
await res.zip({
files: [{
path: dirPath,
name: 'Package'
}],
filename: 'Package.zip'
});
});

I haven't worked with node-zip or archiver before (I usually just use the built-in zlib module), but one thing I noticed right away is that you should place res.download inside the callback of writeFile. That way it will only send the file once it has been fully written to disk.
fs.writeFile('test1.zip', zip.generate(options), 'binary', function (error) {
res.download('test1.zip');
});
I hope this solution works for you, if it doesn't feel free to comment.
Also, I think res.download sets the Content-disposition header for you, you don't need to set it manually. Not 100% sure on that one though.

Above solutions work.(above solutions generate zip and send it to frontend as data in response. In order to make it as downloadable following code will work) I was using express-zip. It is compressing files and sending data to frontend from backend(node). But in frontend I was getting only data in response. In my case I want user can be able to download the zip which sent by server. To solve this I followed following approach. For generating download window in browser i used downloadjs (we can follow another approach but i find this easy)
Front-End
const download = require('downloadjs')
return axios({
url:process.env.API_HOST+'/getuploadedfiles',
method:'get',
headers:{
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
withCredentials:true,
},
responseType:'arraybuffer' // If we don't mention we can't get data in desired format
})
.then(async response => {
console.log("got al files in api ");
let blob = await new Blob([response.data], { type: 'application/zip' }) //It is optional
download(response.data,"attachement.zip","application/zip") //this is third party it will prompt download window in browser.
return response.data;
})
Backe-End
const zip = require('express-zip');
app.use('/getuploadedfiles',function(req,res){
res.zip([
{path:'/path/to/file/file2.PNG',name:'bond.png'},
{path:'/path/to/file/file1.PNG',name:'james.png'}
])

Upload a binary file to S3 using AWS SDK for Node.js

Update: For future reference, Amazon have now updated the documentation from what was there at time of asking. As per #Loren Segal's comment below:-
We've corrected the docs in the latest preview release to document this parameter properly. Sorry about the mixup!
I'm trying out the developer preview of the AWS SDK for Node.Js and want to upload a zipped tarball to S3 using putObject.
According to the documentation, the Body parameter should be...
Body - (Base64 Encoded Data)
...therefore, I'm trying out the following code...
var AWS = require('aws-sdk'),
fs = require('fs');
// For dev purposes only
AWS.config.update({ accessKeyId: 'key', secretAccessKey: 'secret' });
// Read in the file, convert it to base64, store to S3
fs.readFile('myarchive.tgz', function (err, data) {
if (err) { throw err; }
var base64data = new Buffer(data, 'binary').toString('base64');
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
s3.client.putObject({
Bucket: 'mybucketname',
Key: 'myarchive.tgz',
Body: base64data
}).done(function (resp) {
console.log('Successfully uploaded package.');
});
});
Whilst I can then see the file in S3, if I download it and attempt to decompress it I get an error that the file is corrupted. Therefore it seems that my method for 'base64 encoded data' is off.
Can someone please help me to upload a binary file using putObject?

You don't need to convert the buffer to a base64 string. Just set body to data and it will work.

Here is a way to send a file using streams, which might be necessary for large files and will generally reduce memory overhead:
var AWS = require('aws-sdk'),
fs = require('fs');
// For dev purposes only
AWS.config.update({ accessKeyId: 'key', secretAccessKey: 'secret' });
// Read in the file, convert it to base64, store to S3
var fileStream = fs.createReadStream('myarchive.tgz');
fileStream.on('error', function (err) {
if (err) { throw err; }
});
fileStream.on('open', function () {
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
s3.putObject({
Bucket: 'mybucketname',
Key: 'myarchive.tgz',
Body: fileStream
}, function (err) {
if (err) { throw err; }
});
});

I was able to upload my binary file this way.
var fileStream = fs.createReadStream("F:/directory/fileName.ext");
var putParams = {
Bucket: s3bucket,
Key: s3key,
Body: fileStream
};
s3.putObject(putParams, function(putErr, putData){
if(putErr){
console.error(putErr);
} else {
console.log(putData);
}
});