Downloading image from the web with imagemagick and saving to parse - node.js

Question

I'm able to download the image using http and and I am able to resize it using imagemagic, but I can't figure out how to upload it to Parse. Parse only lets me upload: an array of byte value numbers OR base64 string. What I'm confused on is how I can convert the stdout to base64 string so that I can upload it to parse. I tried using fs, but to no avail. I just keep getting errors when it tries to read the file and convert it. What is wrong with my code?
var _ = require('underscore');
var url = require("url");
var srcUrl = 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JxwwGtquGqw/maxresdefault.jpg';
var http = srcUrl.charAt(4) == 's' ? require("https") : require("http");
var im = require('imagemagick');
var Image = require("parse-image");
var image_card_2x = [540, 350];
var thumb = '';
var fs = require('fs');
var request = http.get(url.parse(srcUrl), function(response) {
console.log("got data");
var data = '';
response.setEncoding('binary');
response.on('data', function(chunk) {
data += chunk;
});
console.log("data is " + data);
response.on('end', function () {
// var image = new Image();
// image.setData(response.buffer);
// image.scale({
// width: image_card_2x,
// height: Math.floor((image.height() * arrayElement[0]) / image.width())
// });
// image.setFormat("JPEG");
// console.log("about to make image");
im.resize({
srcData: data,
width: 404,
height: 269,
format: 'jpg'
}, function(err, buffer) {
if (err) throw err;
var bitmap = fs.readFileSync(file);
var base64 = new Buffer(bitmap).toString('base64');
var file = new Parse.File("maa.jpg", {
base64: base64
});
console.log("about to save");
var VideoLinks = Parse.Object.extend("VideoLinks");
var videoLink = new VideoLinks();
videoLink.set("image", file);
return videoLink.save();
console.log("saved");
//fs.writeFileSync('kittens-resized.jpg', stdout, 'binary');
console.log("worked!");
});
})
});