cryptosbyte / BaseImageEncoder64

🗝 CLI Tool that Base64 encodes images from local files or from the web.

Image Buffer -> Base64

This program returns a Base64 encoding of an image buffer (from either the web or local file) as STDOUT (a standard output), meaning that you can run the file and use whatever it logs/outputs.

Help Menu

• -h <url> sends a http get request to the url and returns Base64 encoding of the image
• --http <url> same as above
• -r <path/to/file> fs module reads file and returns Base64 encoding of the image
• --readFile <path/to/file> same as above

How To Build

Install all of the modules...

$ npm install

Compile the TypeScript source code into Commonjs, create executables and store them locally...

$ npm run build

Why not use the Base64 Linux command?

Because... why not? 😈

(Pull Requests are also accepted | also needing help on how to add commands in NT & OSX)