url source image?

[lakamsani]

Hi thanks for making this available. Jimp is able to load URL for image sources so I 'm wondering why you made your library require file for source image. I hacked your code and got it to work with URL (by removing some of the file checks) but not good for a pull request. There is a Jimp issue with getExtension but while saving the suffix does not seem to matter and it works.

[honza]

To be honest, the file requirement is here for historical reasons. I only recently refactored the code to use jimp. I'm certainly happy to support a URL-based source image.

For me personally, the use-case is "here is a directory with a few hundred images, I'd like thumbnails for all of them, please".

Would you be interested in taking this on?

[lakamsani]

Sure. Once this issue is resolved (related to handling errors with URL images) jimp-dev/jimp#262 I will improve my local hack and send a PR.