Loading a remote TIFF

The following code can be used to load remote TIFFs without saving them to the disk.

using TiffImages, Downloads, FileIO

function load_tiff_without_saving(url)
  buffer = IOBuffer()
  Downloads.download(url, buffer)
  bufstream = TiffImages.getstream(format"TIFF", buffer)
  TiffImages.load(read(bufstream, TiffFile))
end

load_tiff_without_saving (generic function with 1 method)

We'll load an example from tlnagy/exampletiffs

coffeepath = "https://github.com/tlnagy/exampletiffs/raw/11516d288c4b03a258aa3027705b0e9d2ce2b5de/coffee.tif"
coffeeimg = load_tiff_without_saving(coffeepath)

No disks involved!

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