[feature request] Support for remote image urls

[vsmart]

Hi @khrome,

thanks for this great library! ✨

It would be great if the image api would support accepting remote urls additionally to local filepaths.

Cheers
@vsmart

[khrome]

Sorry, for the late reply... but I'm considering implementing this. Is this the library (node&browser) or on the command-line?

[khrome]

This will be coming in the next release, but it will require either setting some path vars or some config options to point it at the right library. (request, axios and fetch will be one-liners). Additionally, all plugins will share this lib which uses the same interface internally regardless of what implementation is used.

[khrome]

This is now supported on the new CLI ( ascii-art-cl ) or if you call setRequest() on the root export or on Artwork or Image directly, using a request signature compatible library (like request, postman-request, fetch-as-request, request-as-request and more).

This means it's not enabled by default (except on command line) and thus has no security implications when included in your own libs.