Javascript - get extension from base64 image

Question

I have a base64 encoded image returned from a service and it looks like this:

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/4Yp2aHR0cDovL25zLmFkb2JlLmNvbS94YXAvMS4wLwA8P3hwYWNrZXQgYmVnaW49Iu+7vyIgaWQ9Ilc1TTBNcENlaGlIenJlU3pOVGN6a2M5ZCI/Pgo8eDp4bXBtZXRhIHhtbG5zOng9ImFkb2JlOm5zOm1ldGEvIiB4OnhtcHRrPSJBZG9iZSBYTVAgQ29yZSA0LjEtYzAzNiA0Ni4yNzcwOTIsIEZyaSBGZWIgMjMgMjAwNyAxNDoxNjoxOCAgICAgICAgIj4KICAgPHJkZjpSREYgeG1.... etc

How can i detect / check the image extension?

Answer 1

For a String (which you can parse out of an image) you can do this:

// Create Base64 Object
var Base64={_keyStr:"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",encode:function(e){var t="";var n,r,i,s,o,u,a;var f=0;e=Base64._utf8_encode(e);while(f<e.length){n=e.charCodeAt(f++);r=e.charCodeAt(f++);i=e.charCodeAt(f++);s=n>>2;o=(n&3)<<4|r>>4;u=(r&15)<<2|i>>6;a=i&63;if(isNaN(r)){u=a=64}else if(isNaN(i)){a=64}t=t+this._keyStr.charAt(s)+this._keyStr.charAt(o)+this._keyStr.charAt(u)+this._keyStr.charAt(a)}return t},decode:function(e){var t="";var n,r,i;var s,o,u,a;var f=0;e=e.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g,"");while(f<e.length){s=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));o=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));u=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));a=this._keyStr.indexOf(e.charAt(f++));n=s<<2|o>>4;r=(o&15)<<4|u>>2;i=(u&3)<<6|a;t=t+String.fromCharCode(n);if(u!=64){t=t+String.fromCharCode(r)}if(a!=64){t=t+String.fromCharCode(i)}}t=Base64._utf8_decode(t);return t},_utf8_encode:function(e){e=e.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");var t="";for(var n=0;n<e.length;n++){var r=e.charCodeAt(n);if(r<128){t+=String.fromCharCode(r)}else if(r>127&&r<2048){t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>6|192);t+=String.fromCharCode(r&63|128)}else{t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>12|224);t+=String.fromCharCode(r>>6&63|128);t+=String.fromCharCode(r&63|128)}}return t},_utf8_decode:function(e){var t="";var n=0;var r=c1=c2=0;while(n<e.length){r=e.charCodeAt(n);if(r<128){t+=String.fromCharCode(r);n++}else if(r>191&&r<224){c2=e.charCodeAt(n+1);t+=String.fromCharCode((r&31)<<6|c2&63);n+=2}else{c2=e.charCodeAt(n+1);c3=e.charCodeAt(n+2);t+=String.fromCharCode((r&15)<<12|(c2&63)<<6|c3&63);n+=3}}return t}}

// Define the string, also meaning that you need to know the file extension
var encoded = "Base64 encoded image returned from your service";

// Decode the string
var decoded = Base64.decode(encoded);
console.log(decoded);

// if the file extension is unknown
var extension = undefined;
// do something like this
var lowerCase = decoded.toLowerCase();
if (lowerCase.indexOf("png") !== -1) extension = "png"
else if (lowerCase.indexOf("jpg") !== -1 || lowerCase.indexOf("jpeg") !== -1)
    extension = "jpg"
else extension = "tiff";

// and then to display the image
var img = document.createElement("img");
img.src = decoded;

// alternatively, you can do this
img.src = "data:image/" + extension + ";base64," + encoded;

For completion's sake here's the source and I hope this helps!

Answer 2

A bit late but it seem the question was misunderstood. He just only had the base64 content of the image, not the full data URI.

I wrote here for anyone who encounters with this quest, you can read the first character of content content.charAt(0). By base64 image content if the first char is:

'/' : jpg

'i' : png

'R' : gif

'U' : webp

So for your case, it is 'jpg'.

Answer 3

Was just tweaking with the string. May be this could help.

base64Data.substring("data:image/".length, base64Data.indexOf(";base64"))

Answer 4

Just a little error on the second split. But this is what i expected. Thanks you !

const type = base64Data.split(';')[0].split('/')[1];

Answer 5

This one will work for any extension type: pdf, mp3, png, ....

base64.substring(base64.indexOf('/') + 1, base64.indexOf(';base64'));

Answer 6

By the way you provided invalid Base64 string. correct syntax of base64 encoded image string is like this

"data:image/png;base64,abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789......"

You can parse that string and can get the information out of it

const base64str = {profilepic:"data:image/png;base64,abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"};
let mimeType = base64str.profilepic.match(/[^:]\w+\/[\w-+\d.]+(?=;|,)/)[0];

You can see demo here

and if you want to get only extensions you can use following code to get that one. using regex to parse base64 string and get the extension.

const body2 = {profilepic:"data:image/png;base64,abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"};
let mimeType2 = body2.profilepic.match(/[^:/]\w+(?=;|,)/)[0];

check online working Demo here