CONVERT Image url to Base64

Using an Image File, I am getting the url of an image, that needs be to send to a webservice. From there the image has to be saved locally on my system.

The code I am using:

var imagepath = $("#imageid").val();// from this getting the path of the selected image

that var st = imagepath.replace(data:image/png or jpg; base64"/"");

How to convert the image url to BASE64?

HTML

<img id=imageid src=https://www.google.de/images/srpr/logo11w.png>

JavaScript

function getBase64Image(img) {
  var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
  canvas.width = img.width;
  canvas.height = img.height;
  var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
  ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
  var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
  return dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, "");
}

var base64 = getBase64Image(document.getElementById("imageid"));

This method requires the canvas element, which is perfectly supported.

The MDN reference of HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL().
And the official W3C documentation.

View this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20285053/5065874 by @HaNdTriX

Basically, he implemented this function:

function toDataUrl(url, callback) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.onload = function() {
        var reader = new FileReader();
        reader.onloadend = function() {
            callback(reader.result);
        }
        reader.readAsDataURL(xhr.response);
    };
    xhr.open('GET', url);
    xhr.responseType = 'blob';
    xhr.send();
}

And in your case, you can use it like this:

toDataUrl(imagepath, function(myBase64) {
    console.log(myBase64); // myBase64 is the base64 string
});

In todays JavaScript, this will work as well..

const getBase64FromUrl = async (url) => {
  const data = await fetch(url);
  const blob = await data.blob();
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    const reader = new FileReader();
    reader.readAsDataURL(blob); 
    reader.onloadend = () => {
      const base64data = reader.result;   
      resolve(base64data);
    }
  });
}

getBase64FromUrl('https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/i7cTyGnCwLIJhT1t2YpLW-zHt8ZKalgQiqfrYnZQl975-ygD_0mOXaYZMzekfKW_ydHRutDbNzeqpWoLkFR4Yx2Z2bgNj2XskKJrfw8').then(console.log)

CONVERT Image url to Base64

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