I have a PDF as a base64 string and I need to write it to file using Python. I tried this:
import base64
base64String = "data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjQKJeHp69MKMSAwIG9iago8PC9Qcm9kdWNlciAoU2tpYS9..."
with open('temp.pdf', 'wb') as theFile:
theFile.write(base64.b64decode(base64String))
But it didn't create a valid PDF file. What am I missing?
From my understanding base64decode only takes in a base64 string and looks like you have some headers on your string that are not encoded.
I would remove "data:application/pdf;base64,"
check out the doc here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html
When I've used it in the past, I have only used the encoded string.