How To Save Canvas As An Image With canvas.toDataURL()?

Solution 1:

Here is some code. without any error.

var image = canvas.toDataURL("image/png").replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream");  // here is the most important part because if you dont replace you will get a DOM 18 exception.


window.location.href=image; // it will save locally

Solution 2:

This solution allows you to change the name of the downloaded file:

HTML:

<a id="link"></a>

JAVASCRIPT:

  var link = document.getElementById('link');
  link.setAttribute('download', 'MintyPaper.png');
  link.setAttribute('href', canvas.toDataURL("image/png").replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream"));
  link.click();

Solution 3:

You can use canvas2image to prompt for download.

I had the same issue, here's a simple example that both adds the image to the page and forces the browser to download it:

<html>
    <head>
        <script src="http://hongru.github.io/proj/canvas2image/canvas2image.js"></script>
        <script>
            function draw(){
                var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
                var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
                ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(125, 46, 138, 0.5)";
                ctx.fillRect(25,25,100,100); 
                ctx.fillStyle = "rgba( 0, 146, 38, 0.5)";
                ctx.fillRect(58, 74, 125, 100);
            }

            function to_image(){
                var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
                document.getElementById("theimage").src = canvas.toDataURL();
                Canvas2Image.saveAsPNG(canvas);
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="draw()">
        <canvas width=200 height=200 id="thecanvas"></canvas>
        <div><button onclick="to_image()">Draw to Image</button></div>
        <image id="theimage"></image>
    </body>
</html>

Solution 4:

You can try this; create a dummy HTML anchor, and download the image from there like...

// Convert canvas to image
document.getElementById('btn-download').addEventListener("click", function(e) {
    var canvas = document.querySelector('#my-canvas');

    var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", 1.0);

    downloadImage(dataURL, 'my-canvas.jpeg');
});

// Save | Download image
function downloadImage(data, filename = 'untitled.jpeg') {
    var a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = data;
    a.download = filename;
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click();
}

Solution 5:

I created a small library that does this (along with some other handy conversions). It's called reimg, and it's really simple to use.

ReImg.fromCanvas(yourCanvasElement).toPng()