Input a Stream or a Buffer?

[chinajuanbob]

Is it possible to input a Stream or a Buffer of image instead of a file path?
Thanks!

[toxaco]

Hi @chinajuanbob! that would be good.

What I am doing is to request (NPM request) the image from a URL, then using fs I save the request.body into a file in a tmp dir to then apply the pHash.imageHashSync(file). Finally I remove the tmp file.

Hope it help.

[yaneony]

Would like to know too!

[bobmoff]

Same here, would be awesome to be able to do this on a Buffer (or Stream)

[srameshr]

Yes please on a buffer.

[aecorredor]

Any update on this? Is this implementation still being maintained? Thanks.

[8zf]

seems like we have to use the workaround instead