# Accessing Plex Artwork with Node Plex API

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**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/accessing-plex-artwork-with-node-plex-api/184830 "2017-03-16T19:32:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/accessing-plex-artwork-with-node-plex-api/184830/1 "2017-03-16T19:32:55Z")

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I’m not sure if this is the place to ask this question but I’m having some difficulty with the node plex api [github.com/phillipj/node-plex-api](https://github.com/phillipj/node-plex-api "https://github.com/phillipj/node-plex-api").  
I’ve been trying to access and display artwork from an item in my plex library. The “art” and “thumb” tag in the plex MediaContainer object both return a buffer of, I assume, some kind of jpeg data. How do I display that data as an image?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/accessing-plex-artwork-with-node-plex-api/184830/2 "2020-01-08T20:03:05Z")

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