Python requests base64 image

python base64 python-requests data-uri
nickbusted picture nickbusted · May 16, 2015 · Viewed 22k times · Source

I am using requests to get the image from remote URL. Since the images will always be 16x16, I want to convert them to base64, so that I can embed them later to use in HTML img tag.

import requests
import base64
response = requests.get(url).content
print(response)
b = base64.b64encode(response)
src = "data:image/png;base64," + b

The output for response is:

response = b'GIF89a\x80\x00\x80\x00\xc4\x1f\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\x00\x00\xff\x00\x00\xff\x88\x88"""\xffff\...

The HTML part is:

<img src="{{src}}"/>

But the image is not displayed.

How can I properly base-64 encode the response?

Answer

David Ehrmann picture David Ehrmann · May 16, 2015

I think it's just

import base64
import requests

response = requests.get(url)
uri = ("data:" + 
       response.headers['Content-Type'] + ";" +
       "base64," + base64.b64encode(response.content))

Assuming content-type is set.

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