javascript atob returning 'String contains an invalid character'

Question

I have an AJAX call getting info out of the Github API. It is returned in base64 encoding but when i try to decode it I get the aforementioned error.

Has anyone run

Answer 1

atob breaks due to the newlines in the response. Remove them to get your code to work:

function addSVGToPage(SVGToAdd) {
    var entry, decodedEntry;         // <-- What is this doing here? It's unused.
    makeAJAXCall(SVGToAdd, function (returnedJSON) {
        console.info(window.atob(returnedJSON.data.content.replace(/\s/g, '')));
        //                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    });
}