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base64 encoding images in NodeJS
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/* | |
* Based on https://gist.github.com/583836 from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3709391/node-js-base64-encode-a-downloaded-image-for-use-in-data-uri. | |
* Neither that gist nor this one work for me in 0.2.x or 0.3.x. | |
*/ | |
var request = require('request'), | |
BufferList = require('bufferlist').BufferList, | |
sys = require('sys'), | |
bl = new BufferList(), | |
url = 'http://nodejs.org/logo.png' | |
; | |
request({uri:url, responseBodyStream: bl}, function (error, response, body) | |
{ | |
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { | |
var type = response.headers["content-type"]; | |
var prefix = "data:" + type + ";base64,"; | |
var base64 = new Buffer(bl.toString(), 'binary').toString('base64'); | |
var data = prefix + base64; | |
console.log(data); | |
} | |
}); |
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