Getting around the MimeType issue

[maanhammodat]

This post is to help anyone out when facing the mime type error, similar to this issue here.

I struggled with this for some time as I needed to generate hashes on some remote images and had this issue occur. A workaround is to provide a Buffer instead of a remote URL as below. Hope this help anyone out there facing similar issues.

const response = await axios.get(imageURL, { responseType: 'arraybuffer' });
const buffer = Buffer.from(response.data, "utf-8");

imageHash({
    data: buffer
}, 16, true, (error: any, data: any) => {
    if (error) throw error;
    console.log(data);
})