Copying an image from URL to Amazon S3

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Hi there, I’ve never used any of AWS services before, much less Amazon S3. I’ve googled around but found nothing specific to my needs on the Meteor / React app platform (I’m assuming that the React portion doesn’t have much to do with it). Most of the examples I find are related to a user uploading the file instead of taking an image from a URL.

What I’m trying to do:

  1. Given a URL to an image.
  2. Grab a copy of that image.
  3. Save it to Amazon S3.
  4. Save the link to it in my MongoDB so I can feature it on my app.

There are so many S3 packages and some of them link to CollectionFS which I don’t know if I actually need to use for my use case. I would really appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

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Is this action performed on the sever or client?

I think you need to be able to temporary download the image into the filesystem and then upload it to s3. S3 cannot grab the url itself

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CollectionFS does support this:

so it seem you just have to supply an url and it will load it. CollectionFS also supports S3 so it can store it there without issues.