dpbm / exif-backend

backed of exif website

Exif-Backend

This is the backend part of the exif-remover website.

This is a express/nodejs based backend that gets a file as input and return a medatada cleaned file, using exiftool for it.

requirements

to run this project you'll need:

• nodejs
• npm [or similar, like yarn and pnpm]
• wget
• bash
• tar
• a linux distro

run as dev

to run as dev, first get the exiftool binary by running:

chmod +x ./setup.sh
./setup.sh

then run:

npm install && npm run dev

build the project

to build the project, first get the exiftool binary by running:

chmod +x ./setup.sh
./setup.sh

then run:

npm install && npm run build

and finally start using:

npm run start

getting cleaned files

With all seted up and running send a file to localhost:3333/files

#example with curl
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -F "data=@file/path.jpeg" localhost:3333/files

then it may return a json array containing the cleaned files in base64 format.