---
title: "Process images using Sharp"
sidebarTitle: "Sharp image processing"
description: "This example demonstrates how to process images using the Sharp library with Trigger.dev."
---

## Overview

This task optimizes and watermarks an image using the Sharp library, and then uploads the processed image to R2 storage.

## Adding build configurations

To use this example, you'll first need to add these build settings to your `trigger.config.ts` file:

```ts trigger.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from "@trigger.dev/sdk/v3";

export default defineConfig({
  project: "<project ref>",
  // Your other config settings...
  build: {
    // This is required to use the Sharp library
    external: ["sharp"],
  },
});
```

<Note>
  Any packages that install or build a native binary should be added to external, as native binaries
  cannot be bundled.
</Note>

## Key features

    - Resizes and rotates an image
    - Adds a watermark to the image
    - Uploads the processed image to R2 storage

## Task code

```ts trigger/sharp-image-processing.ts
import { PutObjectCommand, S3Client } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";
import { logger, task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk/v3";
import fs from "fs/promises";
import fetch from "node-fetch";
import os from "os";
import path from "path";
import sharp from "sharp";

// Initialize R2 client
const r2Client = new S3Client({
  region: "auto",
  endpoint: process.env.R2_ENDPOINT,
  credentials: {
    accessKeyId: process.env.R2_ACCESS_KEY_ID ?? "",
    secretAccessKey: process.env.R2_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY ?? "",
  },
});

export const sharpProcessImage = task({
  id: "sharp-process-image",
  run: async (payload: { imageUrl: string; watermarkUrl: string }) => {
    const { imageUrl, watermarkUrl } = payload;

    // Generate temporary and output file names
    const tempDirectory = os.tmpdir();
    const outputPath = path.join(tempDirectory, `output_${Date.now()}.jpg`);

    // Fetch the image and watermark
    const [imageResponse, watermarkResponse] = await Promise.all([
      fetch(imageUrl),
      fetch(watermarkUrl),
    ]);
    const imageBuffer = await imageResponse.arrayBuffer();
    const watermarkBuffer = await watermarkResponse.arrayBuffer();

    // Optimize the image using Sharp
    await sharp(Buffer.from(imageBuffer))
      .rotate(90) // Rotate the image by 90 degrees
      .resize(800, 600) // Resize the image to 800x600
      .composite([
        {
          input: Buffer.from(watermarkBuffer),
          gravity: "southeast", // Position the watermark in the bottom-right corner
        },
      ])
      .toFormat("jpeg")
      .toFile(outputPath);

    // Log the output file path
    logger.log(`Optimized image saved at: ${outputPath}`);

    // Read the optimized image file
    const optimizedImageBuffer = await fs.readFile(outputPath);

    // Upload the optimized image to R2, replacing slashes with underscores
    const r2Key = `processed-images/${path.basename(outputPath)}`;

    const uploadParams = {
      Bucket: process.env.R2_BUCKET,
      Key: r2Key,
      Body: optimizedImageBuffer,
    };

    // Upload the image to R2 and get the URL
    await r2Client.send(new PutObjectCommand(uploadParams));
    const r2Url = `https://${process.env.R2_ACCOUNT_ID}.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/${process.env.R2_BUCKET}/${r2Key}`;
    logger.log("Optimized image uploaded to R2", { url: r2Url });

    // Delete the temporary file
    await fs.unlink(outputPath);

    // Return the optimized image buffer, file path, and R2 URL
    return {
      optimizedImageBuffer,
      optimizedImagePath: outputPath,
      r2Url,
    };
  },
});
```

## Testing your task

To test this task in the dashboard, you can use the following payload:

```json
{
  "imageUrl": "<an-image-url.jpg>", // Replace with a URL to a JPEG image
  "watermarkUrl": "<an-image-url.png>" // Replace with a URL to a PNG watermark image
}
```