Simple file upload to S3 using aws-sdk and Node/Express
node.jsFile UploadAmazon S3Aws SdkMulter S3node.js Problem Overview
I am at a loss of what I am doing wrong, here is what I have:
HTML
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="/upload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="field">
<label for="image">Image Upload</label>
<input type="file" name="image" id="image">
</div>
<input type="submit" class="btn" value="Save">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Port 5000 is my Node.js server's port.
In this example I am using POST to /upload, and it works fine.
module.exports = function(app, models) {
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY || "xxxxxx";
var secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY || "+xxxxxx+B+xxxxxxx";
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: accessKeyId,
secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey
});
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
app.post('/upload', function(req, res){
var params = {
Bucket: 'makersquest',
Key: 'myKey1234.png',
Body: "Hello"
};
s3.putObject(params, function (perr, pres) {
if (perr) {
console.log("Error uploading data: ", perr);
} else {
console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
}
});
});
}
Now I want to post the file that I am POSTing, which is where the problem arises.
module.exports = function(app, models) {
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY || "xxxxxx";
var secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY || "+xxxxxx+B+xxxxxxx";
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: accessKeyId,
secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey
});
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
app.post('/upload', function(req, res){
var path = req.files.image.path;
fs.readFile(path, function(err, file_buffer){
var params = {
Bucket: 'makersquest',
Key: 'myKey1234.png',
Body: file_buffer
};
s3.putObject(params, function (perr, pres) {
if (perr) {
console.log("Error uploading data: ", perr);
} else {
console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
}
});
});
});
}
The error I get is:
>TypeError: Cannot read property 'path' of undefined
As a matter of fact files is completely empty.
I am assuming I am missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find it.
node.js Solutions
Solution 1 - node.js
You will need something like multer to handle multipart uploading.
Here is an example streaming your file upload to s3 using aws-sdk.
var multer = require('multer');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY || "xxxxxx";
var secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY || "+xxxxxx+B+xxxxxxx";
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: accessKeyId,
secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey
});
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
app.use(multer({ // https://github.com/expressjs/multer
dest: './public/uploads/',
limits : { fileSize:100000 },
rename: function (fieldname, filename) {
return filename.replace(/\W+/g, '-').toLowerCase();
},
onFileUploadData: function (file, data, req, res) {
// file : { fieldname, originalname, name, encoding, mimetype, path, extension, size, truncated, buffer }
var params = {
Bucket: 'makersquest',
Key: file.name,
Body: data
};
s3.putObject(params, function (perr, pres) {
if (perr) {
console.log("Error uploading data: ", perr);
} else {
console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
}
});
}
}));
app.post('/upload', function(req, res){
if(req.files.image !== undefined){ // `image` is the field name from your form
res.redirect("/uploads"); // success
}else{
res.send("error, no file chosen");
}
});
Solution 2 - node.js
[Update Mar 2022] Supports multiple file uploads at a time, and returns the uploaded file(s)' public URL(s) too.
Latest Answer @ Dec-2016 [New]
Use multer-s3 for multipart uploading to s3 without saving on local disk as:
var express = require('express'),
aws = require('aws-sdk'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
multer = require('multer'),
multerS3 = require('multer-s3');
aws.config.update({
secretAccessKey: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
accessKeyId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
region: 'us-east-1'
});
var app = express(),
s3 = new aws.S3();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
var upload = multer({
storage: multerS3({
s3: s3,
acl: 'public-read',
bucket: 'bucket-name',
key: function (req, file, cb) {
console.log(file);
cb(null, file.originalname); //use Date.now() for unique file keys
}
})
});
//open in browser to see upload form
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
//use by upload form
app.post('/upload', upload.array('upl', 25), function (req, res, next) {
res.send({
message: "Uploaded!",
urls: req.files.map(function(file) {
return {url: file.location, name: file.key, type: file.mimetype, size: file.size};
})
});
});
app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
Latest Answer @ Mar-2016 [Old-One]
Edited 1 use [email protected] and [email protected] for following snippet:
var express = require('express'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
multer = require('multer'),
s3 = require('multer-s3');
var app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
var upload = multer({
storage: s3({
dirname: '/',
bucket: 'bucket-name',
secretAccessKey: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
accessKeyId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
region: 'us-east-1',
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, file.originalname); //use Date.now() for unique file keys
}
})
});
//open in browser to see upload form
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
//use by upload form
app.post('/upload', upload.array('upl'), function (req, res, next) {
res.send("Uploaded!");
});
app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
For complete running example clone express_multer_s3 repo and run node app.
Solution 3 - node.js
Simple S3 File Upload Without Multer
var express = require('express')
const fileUpload = require('express-fileupload');
const app = express();
app.use(fileUpload());
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
app.post('/imageUpload', async (req, res) => {
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: "ACCESS-KEY", // Access key ID
secretAccesskey: "SECRET-ACCESS-KEY", // Secret access key
region: "us-east-1" //Region
})
const s3 = new AWS.S3();
// Binary data base64
const fileContent = Buffer.from(req.files.uploadedFileName.data, 'binary');
// Setting up S3 upload parameters
const params = {
Bucket: 'BUKET-NAME',
Key: "test.jpg", // File name you want to save as in S3
Body: fileContent
};
// Uploading files to the bucket
s3.upload(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
res.send({
"response_code": 200,
"response_message": "Success",
"response_data": data
});
});
})
app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
Solution 4 - node.js
You need something like multer in your set of middleware to handle multipart/form-data for you and populate req.files. From the doco:
var express = require('express')
var multer = require('multer')
var app = express()
app.use(multer({ dest: './uploads/'}))
Now req.files.image.path should be populated in your app.post function.
Solution 5 - node.js
This stack overflow was the best answer I found explaining exactly how to get Node to S3 working.
This in addition to some more stuff I had to hack on to get it all working. In my situation I was using a MEAN stack application so my Node file I was working with was a route file.
my aconfig.json file with the amazon credentials looks like this:
{ "accessKeyId": "*****YourAccessKey****", "secretAccessKey": "***YourSecretKey****" }
The final contents of the route file look like the file pasted below.
router.post('/sendToS3', function(req, res) {
var fs = require('fs');
var multer = require('multer');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var path = require('path');
var awsCredFile = path.join(__dirname, '.', 'aconfig.json');
console.log('awsCredFile is');
console.log(awsCredFile);
AWS.config.loadFromPath(awsCredFile);
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
var photoBucket = new AWS.S3({params: {Bucket: 'myGreatBucketName'}});
var sampleFile = {
"_id" : 345345,
"fieldname" : "uploads[]",
"originalname" : "IMG_1030.JPG",
"encoding" : "7bit",
"mimetype" : "image/jpeg",
"destination" : "./public/images/uploads",
"filename" : "31a66c51883595e74ab7ae5e66fb2ab8",
"path" : "/images/uploads/31a66c51883595e74ab7ae5e66fb2ab8",
"size" : 251556,
"user" : "579fbe61adac4a8a73b6f508"
};
var filePathToSend = path.join(__dirname, '../public', sampleFile.path);
function uploadToS3(filepath, destFileName, callback) {
photoBucket
.upload({
ACL: 'public-read',
Body: fs.createReadStream(filepath),
Key: destFileName.toString(),
ContentType: 'application/octet-stream' // force download if it's accessed as a top location
})
// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3/ManagedUpload.html#httpUploadProgress-event
.on('httpUploadProgress', function(evt) { console.log(evt); })
// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3/ManagedUpload.html#send-property
.send(callback);
}
multer({limits: {fileSize:10*1024*1024}});
console.log('filePathToSend is ');
console.log(filePathToSend);
uploadToS3(filePathToSend, sampleFile.filename, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return res.status(500).send('failed to upload to s3').end();
}
res.status(200)
.send('File uploaded to S3: '
+ data.Location.replace(/</g, '<')
+ '<br/><img src="' + data.Location.replace(/"/g, '"') + '"/>')
.end();
});
console.log('uploading now...');
});
This took me a while to finally get working, but if you setup the route below, update the sampleFile JSON to point to a real file on your system and hit it with Postman it will publish a file to your S3 account.
Hope this helps