Tarikgambar

Simple image download command line tool & module for node.js. Supports image/png, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/webp types.

Tested with Node v4 and v6.

Installing

As command-line tool

npm install -g tarikgambar

As regular module

npm install tarikgambar

Breaking changes from v0 to v1

• Removed outputDir and filename from configuration object. You should use outputPath instead.

Configuration

• url: (String) - URL of the target image file.
• outputType: (String) - This value should be either stream or file. Default to stream if not defined.
• outputPath: (String) - Path to the output file, will fail if the directory is not exists. This field is not used if outputType is stream.

API

tarikgambar.pull(options, callback)

Call callback on completition with error or value that contains path to a file or response stream depending on options.outputType value.

Parameters:

• options: (Object) - Download configuration.
• callback: (Function(Error, String|Response) - Callback function to be called on completition.

Example 1 (stream):

tarikgambar.pull({ url: 'http://example.com/path/to/some/image.png' }, (err, response) => {
    if (err) {
        // handle error
    }
 
    // write stream to file or send it to browser.
    response.on('data', chunk => {
        // do something.
    });
});

Example 2 (path):

const options = {
    url: 'http://example.com/path/to/some/image.png',
    outputType: 'file',
    outputPath: '/home/winter/downloaded.png',
};
 
tarikgambar.pull(options, (err, path) => {
    if (err) {
        // handle error
    }
 
    console.log('The image file is saved to ', path);
});

tarikgambar.pullAsync(options) -> Promise<String|Response>

Return promise that will be rejecter or resolve to either path to a file or response stream depending on options.outputType value.

Example 1 (stream):

tarikgambar.pullAsync({ url: 'http://example.com/path/to/some/image.png' }).then(response => {
    // write stream to a file or send it to browser.
    response.on('data', chunk => {
        // do something.
    });
})
.catch(err => {
    // handle error
});

Example 2 (path):

const options = {
    url: 'http://example.com/path/to/some/image.png',
    outputType: 'file',
    outputPath: '/home/winter/downloaded.png',
};
 
tarikgambar.pullAsync({ url: 'http://example.com/path/to/some/image.png' }).then(path => {
    console.log('The image file is saved to: ', path);
})
.catch(err => {
    // handle error
});