uploadMedia fails with buffer input

Hi, I’ve been trying to use this wrapper for the upload media endpoint in a project and it works pretty well for local files but when I try to pass a buffer created from binary data it prompts:

Error: Failed to process media

This is how I get the binary data:

const getVideoBuffer = (previewUrl: string) => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    request.defaults({ encoding: null });
    request.get(previewUrl!, async (error, response, body) => {
      if (error) {
        reject(new Error(`Something went wrong getting binary data from preview url ${error}`));
      }
      resolve(Buffer.from(body));
    });
  });
};

Here I get the buffer and start the upload:

 const buffer: any = await getVideoBuffer(previewUrl || '');
 const mediaId = await client.v1.uploadMedia(buffer, { type: 'mp4', target: 'tweet'});
 const tweet = await client.v1.tweet('Hello!', { media_ids: mediaId });
 console.log(tweet);

Am I missing something? Thanks in advance

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Hi @savannahar68, we just ended up using axios, here:

const res: any = await axios.get(previewUrl || '', { responseType: 'arraybuffer' });
log.info('Content fetched...');
const buffer = res.data;
const mediaId = await client.v1.uploadMedia(buffer, { type: 'longmp4', target: 'tweet' });

Then you would call

const tweet = await client.v1.tweet("Your tweet", { media_ids: mediaId });

Good luck!

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It was the request package, just noticed that is deprecated. Thanks a lot @alkihis , that solved the issue.