Convert binary data to base64 with javascript

Question

HTML5 enable you to store data locally which I think it is great. For example here is how you can use it:

        var store = window.localStorage;
        st         


        

Answer 1

Use a FileReader to encode your image as a data URL:

jQuery.ajax({...})
.done(function (r) {
  var reader = new FileReader(
  reader.onload = (function(self) {
    return function(e) {
      document.getElementById("img").src = e.target.result;
    }
  })(this);
  reader.readAsDataURL(new Blob([r]));
});

Answer 2

Try the btoa function:

   var data = btoa(r);

Answer 3

To prevent 'InvalidCharacterError' error, you need to do this:

var base64EncodedStr = btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(rawData)));

Answer 4

This is old question, but could not find a better answer, so I wrote down this function. It will convert the Uint8Array directly to Base64 without converting it into a string before base64. Hope it will help someone.

var encoder = new TextEncoder("ascii");
var decoder = new TextDecoder("ascii");
var base64Table = encoder.encode('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=');
function toBase64(dataArr){
    var padding = dataArr.byteLength % 3;
    var len = dataArr.byteLength - padding;
    padding = padding > 0 ? (3 - padding) : 0;
    var outputLen = ((len/3) * 4) + (padding > 0 ? 4 : 0);
    var output = new Uint8Array(outputLen);
    var outputCtr = 0;
    for(var i=0; i<len; i+=3){              
        var buffer = ((dataArr[i] & 0xFF) << 16) | ((dataArr[i+1] & 0xFF) << 8) | (dataArr[i+2] & 0xFF);
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[buffer >> 18];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[(buffer >> 12) & 0x3F];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[(buffer >> 6) & 0x3F];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[buffer & 0x3F];
    }
    if (padding == 1) {
        var buffer = ((dataArr[len] & 0xFF) << 8) | (dataArr[len+1] & 0xFF);
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[buffer >> 10];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[(buffer >> 4) & 0x3F];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[(buffer << 2) & 0x3F];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[64];
    } else if (padding == 2) {
        var buffer = dataArr[len] & 0xFF;
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[buffer >> 2];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[(buffer << 4) & 0x3F];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[64];
        output[outputCtr++] = base64Table[64];
    }
    
    var ret = decoder.decode(output);
    output = null;
    dataArr = null;
    return ret;
}