Saving and reading private key to env variables using base64

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Encoding the private key as base64

• Copy the private key to clipboard
• Run command pbpaste | base64 | pbcopy
• The private key is now base64 encoded in the clipboard. Paste it to env variable e.g. to heroku or to .env file

Decoding the private key from base64 in node.js

const private_key = new Buffer(process.env.PRIVATE_KEY, 'base64').toString('ascii');

❤️ this and thank you. On systems with xclip and without pbcopy and pbpaste, try:

xclip -selection clipboard -o | base64 -w 0 | xclip -selection clipboard

ℹ️ The base64 -w 0 also removes the newlines from the output per https://superuser.com/a/1225139.

You can always conveniently encode using notepad++ MIME Tools as well:
https://www.technipages.com/how-to-base64-encode-and-decode-in-notepad/

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new Buffer is deprecated. We should use Buffer.from(env.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS, 'base64').toString('ascii') instead.

Private key find