URL inside ffmpeg(fs.createStreamReader(url))

Question

I have been trying to read a video from an url inside ffmpeg in my node js application. My code goes like this.

const ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');
const fs = require('fs')

var strm = fs.createReadStream('https://myurl.com/videos/fq231f12a')
ffmpeg()
  .input(strm)
  .run();

When i run this code in my local shell the url is appended to the current dir. Like a relative path. This looks weird to me.

E:\myapp>node video.js
node:events:342
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'E:\myapp\https:\myur...

What's wrong here? How do i make it work properly?