Load Image Data into Angularjs

Question

I have a bunch of image urls and I want to download the images from the browser into a zip file. I'm planning on using jszip to create the zip file. And I have all the image urls from the server. What I attempted was :

var img = zip.folder("profiles");



async.mapSeries($scope.queriedUsers, 
    function (user, iterCallback) {

        delete $http.defaults.headers.common['X-Requested-With'];
        $http.get(user.profile_image_url, {responseType: "arraybuffer"})
            .success(function (data) {
                iterCallback(null, {data: data, name: user.screen_name});
            })
            .error(function (data, status) {
                iterCallback(status, data);
            })

        },
    function (err, results) {
        _.each(results, function (result){
            img.file(result.screen_name + ".gif", result.data, {base64: true});
        });

        var content = zip.generate();
        window.location.href = "data:application/zip;base64," + content;
    });

And the error i got was:

OPTIONS <url> No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access. 

What I find interesting is that in the html the images load fine:

<tbody>
    <tr ng-repeat="user in queriedUsers">
        <td><a href="https://twitter.com/{{user.screen_name}}"><img ng-src="{{user.profile_image_url}}" alt="User Twitter Image"></a></td>
        <td><a href="https://twitter.com/{{user.screen_name}}">{{user.screen_name}}</a></td>
        <td>{{user.name}}</td>
        <td>{{user.description}}</td>  
    </tr>
</tbody>

How do I load the image data into angularjs? Is there a way to get it directly for the ng-src?

Thanks

Answer 1

Basically you have a cross domain issue here. You can open images with remote URL but you cannot make Ajax request to a different domain than yours. Please take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy

You can overtake this problem by creating a proxy. This means that your Ajax request would be pointing to your server and at the response you could send the image address, which can be used normally afterwards.

Answer 2

You can't make ajax calls to different domains without using CORS.

BUT if you only need the actual image, you can just do the following:

// Create image object
var img = document.createElement("img");

// Set source to profile image url
img.src = user.profile_image_url;

// Wait for image to load
img.onload = function(){
  // Callback
}