Exiftool in nodejs for heroku

Question

I have the problem that I need to use the exiftool, since I could command more metadata packages that are in NPM. But this program is not loaded in heroku, What is the method to install this command?

Answer 1

To get extra binaries, dependencies, libs, etc onto the dyno, you should specify additional buildpacks as documented here:

• https://github.com/benalavi/buildpack-exiftool

The gist is:

heroku buildpack:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-multi

Then in .buildpacks:

https://github.com/benalavi/buildpack-exiftool
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs

That will first download & install exiftool, then install node and use node (the final item listed) as your app buildpack.