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Basic Node Server to capture images and display in multipart using boundary
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/* Node Server | |
* Captures image and displays them using multipart and boundary headers | |
* 16th Jan 2016 | |
* Author : Areeb Jamal, Rahul Jha | |
*/ | |
var fs = require('fs'), | |
http = require('http'), | |
express = require('express'), | |
NodeWebcam = require("node-webcam"); | |
var opts = { | |
width: 1280, | |
height: 720, | |
delay: 0, | |
quality: 100, | |
output: "jpeg", | |
verbose: false | |
} | |
var Webcam = NodeWebcam.create(opts); | |
app = express(); | |
var server = http.createServer(app); | |
app.use(express.static('app')); | |
app.get('/', function(req, res) { | |
res.writeHead(200, { | |
'Content-Type': 'multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=myboundary' | |
}); | |
var capture = function() { | |
Webcam.capture("my_picture"); | |
fs.readFile('./' + 'my_picture.jpg', function(err, content) { | |
if (err) { | |
console.log(err); | |
return; | |
} | |
res.write("--myboundary\r\n"); | |
res.write("Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n"); | |
res.write("\r\n"); | |
res.write(content, 'binary'); | |
res.write("\r\n"); | |
}); | |
setTimeout(capture, 100); | |
}; | |
capture(); | |
}); | |
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080; | |
server.listen(port, function() { | |
console.log('Listening on ' + port); | |
}); |
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Found a better alternative
https://gist.github.com/RJ722/403c92a86d82c95ad0ff71f4ad0be997