Support for reading and writing EXIF to file stream

[tomchomiak]

Hey @Sobesednik

Thank you for the great repo! Would be awesome if you could also read and write EXIF to a file stream. Any plans for something like this?

var remoteURL = 'https://nodejs.org/static/images/logos/nodejs-new-pantone-black.png'
var upstreamServer = 'http://someupstreamserver/uploads'

request
  .get(remoteURL)
  .pipe(
      // TODO read EXIF
      // TODO write missing EXIF
      request
        .post(upstreamServer, function(err, httpResponse, body){
          res.send(201)
      })
  )

[z-vr]

@tomchomiak hi thanks for the request, it is something we have looked at before, but didn't get time to address it. Will let you know when it's possible.

[z-vr]

@tomchomiak you might wanna try https://github.com/kapouer/node-streat

[tomchomiak]

@Sobesednik Thank you so much!

[z-vr]

@tomchomiak you can read from a file now
https://github.com/Sobesednik/node-exiftool#reading-metadata-from-a-stream
I will add stream writing in future because I think it's an awesome idea 👍

[legomind]

Any update on this?
I can submit a PR

[mattkeener77]

@Sobesednik Thanks for your great work here!
It would definitely be useful to have the stream writing capability. Any word on when that feature may happen? Thanks!

[antmarot]

I have an app whose only purpose is to download JPEGs to then upload them elsewhere with additional EXIF tags.
Writing EXIF as a transform stream would really be nice!