Google cloud function download file and redirect to bucket storage

Question

I am trying to use a google cloud function in Node.js to download a file for wordpress repo then send the file into a google cloud bucket. I have the wordpress file downloading but it fails to write to the google bucket.

function writeToBucket(jsonObject){

/*
 *  Google API authentication
 */

var gcs = require('@google-cloud/storage')({
         projectId: 'wp-media-cdn',
         keyFilename: 'wp-media-cdn-d9d7c61bfad9.json'
});

/*
 *  rename image file with image size, format: size X size imgName
 */

var pluginUrl = "https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.5.14.zip";
    newPluginName = "bbpress";

/*
 *  Read image into stream, upload image to bucket
 */

var request = require('request');
var fs = require('fs'); //used for createWriteString()

var myBucket = gcs.bucket('test_buckyy'); //PUT BUCKET NAME HERE
var file = myBucket.file(nnewPluginName);

// file.exists() returns true if file already in bucket, then returns file url, exits function
if(file.exists()){
    return 'https://storage.googleapis.com/${test_buckyy}/${file}';
}

//pipes image data into fileStream
var fileStream = myBucket.file(newImageName).createWriteStream();
request(imgUrl).pipe(fileStream)
    .on('error', function(err) {
        console.log('upload failed');
    })
    .on('finish', function() {
        console.log('file uploaded');
    });
/*
 *  return image url
 *  use getSignedUrl
 */


    return 'https://storage.googleapis.com/${test_buckyy}/${file}';

}

Answer 1

I just replicated your use case scenario and I successfully downloaded the file into the temporary folder of a Cloud Function and from there I copied this file into a bucket.

In order to achieve this, I downloaded the file using createWriteStream into the /tmp folder since is the only folder where we can store files in a Cloud Function, as stated in the Cloud Functions Execution Environment documentation.

After that, I just copied the file to a bucket following this Cloud Storage Uploading Objects documentation.

You can take a look of my sample function

Index.js

const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

exports.writeToBucket = (req, res) => {
const http = require('http');
const fs = require('fs');

const file = fs.createWriteStream("/tmp/yourfile.jpg");
const request = http.get("YOUR_URL_TO_DOWNLOAD_A_FILE", function(response) {
  response.pipe(file);
});

console.log('file downloaded');

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();
const bucketName = 'YOUR_BUCKET_NAME';
const filename = '/tmp/yourfile.jpg';

// Uploads a local file to the bucket
storage.bucket(bucketName).upload(filename, {
  gzip: true,
  metadata: {
    cacheControl: 'no-cache',
  },
});

res.status(200).send(`${filename} uploaded to ${bucketName}.`);

};


package.json

{
  "name": "sample-http",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
        "@google-cloud/storage": "^3.0.3"
    }
}