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Express middleware to rehost and resize images

Install

$ npm install rehost

Usage

var express = require('express');
var rehost = require('rehost');
var app = express();
app.use('/:rehost.:format', rehost());
app.listen(3000);

Requesting the following URL on the server:

http://localhost:3000/aHR0cDovL2V4YW1wbGUuY29tL2ltYWdlLnBuZw.jpg?resize=500x500

Will fetch, resize and convert the image at:

http://example.com/image.png

The source URL is encoded using "Base 64 Encoding with URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" from RFC 4648 without padding.

Example in JavaScript:

var base64 = require('base64-url');
var url = 'http://example.com/image.jpg'
var enc = base64.encode(url);

Example in Ruby:

require 'base64'
url = 'http://example.com/image.jpg'
enc = Base64.urlsafe_encode64(url, padding: false)

Parameters

The resize parameter is a subset of ImageMagick geometry: <width>x<height>{!}.

The format parameter to convert the image can be jpg or png.

The rehost, resize and format parameters can be in the query string or the path of the request. They can also be defined in an optional options object passed to the middleware function.

Caching

No caching is done on the server so it should be running behind a CDN.

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Vincent Ollivier. Released under MIT.