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Created July 18, 2011 14:48
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Give an image, get a data-uri
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Command line script to convert a file, usually an image, into a data URI
for use on the web."""
import base64
import mimetypes
import os
import sys
class FileNotFoundError(Exception):
pass
def img_to_data(path):
"""Convert a file (specified by a path) into a data URI."""
if not os.path.exists(path):
raise FileNotFoundError
mime, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
data = fp.read()
data64 = u''.join(base64.encodestring(data).splitlines())
return u'data:%s;base64,%s' % (mime, data64)
def usage(argv):
print 'Usage: %s <path-to-file>' % argv[0]
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
path = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
usage(sys.argv)
sys.exit(1)
try:
print img_to_data(path)
except FileNotFoundError:
print 'File not found!'
sys.exit(2)
@revolunet
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nice for server side compression

what do you think about this pure javascript version http://www.revolunet.com/static/drop.html ?

@jsocol
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jsocol commented Aug 17, 2011

@revolunet: There are a number of websites/services that will do it, I specifically wanted something that didn't make me find one of them, or open a browser :)

@benmj
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benmj commented May 15, 2013

This is rad. So simple yet so effective.

@OmkarKirpan
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Thanks a lot for this.

@jwlyn
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jwlyn commented Apr 1, 2019

what about SVG? this don't work.

@santosh-burada
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how to use this

@sortalost
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@santosh-burada ....sorry for a reply a year late....do:

$ python3 data_uri.py path/to/image.png

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