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Convert an SVG to Base64
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svg-to-base64.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<img id="image" />
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<svg width="200" height="250" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect x="10" y="10" width="30" height="30" stroke="black" fill="transparent" stroke-width="5" />
</svg>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var serializedString = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(document.querySelector('svg'));
var encodedData = window.btoa(serializedString);
document.getElementById('image').src = `data:image/svg+xml;base64,${encodedData}`;
</script>
</html>
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SeanMcP commented Dec 6, 2018

The plan is to use this to programmatically create images for Twitter cards on a Gatsby site

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