I want to make a Chrome addon, which displays ones Facebook picture.
Mine e.g. is this one.
I do get the final Url and the response of an XMLHttpRequest.
In response.response I have the image data, which starts with ����JFIF���Photoshop 3.08BIM�gO87swNzt0qHGr_stQXIz(bFBMD01000aa00100001d020000b6020000ec02000027030
I am trying to store and than display it. (I want to display this bigger on a different place as well). So I do not want to use path in chrome.browserAction.setIcon, but the Image itself.
I tried a lot of things (and will continue tomorrow). So far:
I need an ImageData Object
I need an ImageData Object smaller than <= 19 pixels.
I do know the size of the image from facebook (50x50)
Tomorrow I will continue with trying this. I forgot, that the Image is not base64 encoded yet, so the solution linked in this sentence was not able to work...
My problem is: How to create the ImageData-Object(s) required by chrome.browserAction.setIcon frim the icon above in JS. Using the "html5-canvas" tag, as ImageData is very close to a canvas.
As always, answers are highly appreciated.
Yours,
Florian
facebook graph API does send the proper Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" in the header of the image's response.
So all you need is to set the crossorigin attribute of an <img> tag to 'anonymous', draw this image onto a canvas and use either the imageData you get from ctx.getImageData() or the dataURI you get from canvas.toDataURL().
var c = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = c.getContext('2d')
var img = new Image();
img.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
img.onload = function(){
c.width = this.width;
c.height = this.height;
ctx.drawImage(this, 0,0);
// either you do use the image data
var imagedata = ctx.getImageData(0,0,c.width, c.height);
snippet.log('imagedata length : '+imagedata.data.length);
// or the dataURL
var dataURL = c.toDataURL();
snippet.log(dataURL);
document.body.style.backgroundImage = 'url('+dataURL+')';
}
img.src = "https://graph.facebook.com/100004288501341/picture?type=square"
p{background-color: rgba(230, 230, 250,.7);}
<!-- Provides the `snippet` object, see http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/242144/134069 -->
<script src="http://tjcrowder.github.io/simple-snippets-console/snippet.js"></script>
Related
So I'm using google maps and I get the picture so it looks like this
<img id="staticMap"
src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap
&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green%7Clabel:G%7C40.711614,-74.012318
&markers=color:red%7Ccolor:red%7Clabel:C%7C40.718217,-73.998284&sensor=false">
I need to save it. I have found this:
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var img = new Image();
img.src = URL;
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
alert(dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, ""));
};
}
But I get this problem:
Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to execute 'toDataURL' on 'HTMLCanvasElement': tainted canvases may not be exported.
I searched for fixes. I found a sample here How to use CORS but still I can't tie these 2 pieces of code together to make it work. Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way and there is a simpler way to do it? I'm trying to save this pic so that I can transfer the data to my server. So maybe someone did something like this and knows how to make .toDataURL() work as I need it?
Unless google serves this image with the correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, then you wont be able to use their image in canvas. This is due to not having CORS approval. You can read more about this here, but it essentially means:
Although you can use images without CORS approval in your canvas,
doing so taints the canvas. Once a canvas has been tainted, you can no
longer pull data back out of the canvas. For example, you can no
longer use the canvas toBlob(), toDataURL(), or getImageData()
methods; doing so will throw a security error.
This protects users from having private data exposed by using images
to pull information from remote web sites without permission.
I suggest just passing the URL to your server-side language and using curl to download the image. Be careful to sanitise this though!
EDIT:
As this answer is still the accepted answer, you should check out #shadyshrif's answer, which is to use:
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This will only work if you have the correct permissions, but will at least allow you to do what you want.
Just use the crossOrigin attribute and pass 'anonymous' as the second parameter
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This method will prevent you from getting an 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error from the server you are accessing to.
var img = new Image();
var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url + '?' + timestamp;
Try the code below ...
<img crossOrigin="anonymous"
id="imgpicture"
fall-back="images/penang realty,Apartment,house,condominium,terrace house,semi d,detached,
bungalow,high end luxury properties,landed properties,gated guarded house.png"
ng-src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"
height="220"
width="200"
class="watermark">
In my case I was using the WebBrowser control (forcing IE 11) and I could not get past the error. Switching to CefSharp which uses Chrome solved it for me.
I had the same error message. I had the file in a simple .html, when I passed the file to php in Apache it worked
html2canvas(document.querySelector('#toPrint')).then(canvas => {
let pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'mm', 'a4');
pdf.addImage(canvas.toDataURL('image/png'), 'PNG', 0, 0, 211, 298);
pdf.save(filename);
});
if the picture from the 3rd party site didn't set the header for cors ("access-control-allow-origin"), you can never download the picture file through chrome,
even if you use the setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
Here are some suggestions
hack chrome (use an extension, this will only work on your machine)
proxy the image through a service running on your site. The browser will see the domain as your site. This requires your service to request the image from the 3rd party.
By using fabric js we can solve this security error issue in IE.
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
var canvas1 = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas1.width = this.width;
canvas1.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL({format: "png"});
};
img.src = URL;
}
So I'm using google maps and I get the picture so it looks like this
<img id="staticMap"
src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap
&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green%7Clabel:G%7C40.711614,-74.012318
&markers=color:red%7Ccolor:red%7Clabel:C%7C40.718217,-73.998284&sensor=false">
I need to save it. I have found this:
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var img = new Image();
img.src = URL;
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
alert(dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, ""));
};
}
But I get this problem:
Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to execute 'toDataURL' on 'HTMLCanvasElement': tainted canvases may not be exported.
I searched for fixes. I found a sample here How to use CORS but still I can't tie these 2 pieces of code together to make it work. Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way and there is a simpler way to do it? I'm trying to save this pic so that I can transfer the data to my server. So maybe someone did something like this and knows how to make .toDataURL() work as I need it?
Unless google serves this image with the correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, then you wont be able to use their image in canvas. This is due to not having CORS approval. You can read more about this here, but it essentially means:
Although you can use images without CORS approval in your canvas,
doing so taints the canvas. Once a canvas has been tainted, you can no
longer pull data back out of the canvas. For example, you can no
longer use the canvas toBlob(), toDataURL(), or getImageData()
methods; doing so will throw a security error.
This protects users from having private data exposed by using images
to pull information from remote web sites without permission.
I suggest just passing the URL to your server-side language and using curl to download the image. Be careful to sanitise this though!
EDIT:
As this answer is still the accepted answer, you should check out #shadyshrif's answer, which is to use:
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This will only work if you have the correct permissions, but will at least allow you to do what you want.
Just use the crossOrigin attribute and pass 'anonymous' as the second parameter
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This method will prevent you from getting an 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error from the server you are accessing to.
var img = new Image();
var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url + '?' + timestamp;
Try the code below ...
<img crossOrigin="anonymous"
id="imgpicture"
fall-back="images/penang realty,Apartment,house,condominium,terrace house,semi d,detached,
bungalow,high end luxury properties,landed properties,gated guarded house.png"
ng-src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"
height="220"
width="200"
class="watermark">
In my case I was using the WebBrowser control (forcing IE 11) and I could not get past the error. Switching to CefSharp which uses Chrome solved it for me.
I had the same error message. I had the file in a simple .html, when I passed the file to php in Apache it worked
html2canvas(document.querySelector('#toPrint')).then(canvas => {
let pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'mm', 'a4');
pdf.addImage(canvas.toDataURL('image/png'), 'PNG', 0, 0, 211, 298);
pdf.save(filename);
});
if the picture from the 3rd party site didn't set the header for cors ("access-control-allow-origin"), you can never download the picture file through chrome,
even if you use the setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
Here are some suggestions
hack chrome (use an extension, this will only work on your machine)
proxy the image through a service running on your site. The browser will see the domain as your site. This requires your service to request the image from the 3rd party.
By using fabric js we can solve this security error issue in IE.
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
var canvas1 = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas1.width = this.width;
canvas1.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL({format: "png"});
};
img.src = URL;
}
I'm trying to read a URL (the resource of which is an image) and encode this image in base64 to save it in a database.
I've looked around Google and Stackoverflow and a lot of people say that it is impossible to save a base64 formatted image that you read from a URL.(Are they wrong?)
My steps are as follows:
I parse an XML file where there is a URL for the image. I'm trying to save this image in a base64 format in a DB.
Can anybody help me?
I can't readily put together an example of this, but it should be possible, assuming the image is coming from the same domain you are running the code on, or you can control the cross origin header for the image (or else you'll get a Cross-origin error).
Assuming this is the case, you can. Here is a JSFiddle where I encode the logo of JSFiddle: http://fiddle.jshell.net/5S6BY/ (since that logo is on the same domain as where the code is running, it works).
The trick is to draw it to a canvas, then convert that canvas to a base64.
Here is the code:
var url = "http://fiddle.jshell.net/img/logo.png";
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var image = new Image();
image.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
image.addEventListener('load', function() {
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, image.width, image.height);
document.body.innerHTML = canvas.toDataURL();
});
image.src = url;
It's pretty straight forward. Load the image, draw the image to the canvas, then call canvas.toDataUrl() to get the base64 encoded version, which you can use to do whatever you want.
So I'm using google maps and I get the picture so it looks like this
<img id="staticMap"
src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap
&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green%7Clabel:G%7C40.711614,-74.012318
&markers=color:red%7Ccolor:red%7Clabel:C%7C40.718217,-73.998284&sensor=false">
I need to save it. I have found this:
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var img = new Image();
img.src = URL;
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
alert(dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, ""));
};
}
But I get this problem:
Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to execute 'toDataURL' on 'HTMLCanvasElement': tainted canvases may not be exported.
I searched for fixes. I found a sample here How to use CORS but still I can't tie these 2 pieces of code together to make it work. Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way and there is a simpler way to do it? I'm trying to save this pic so that I can transfer the data to my server. So maybe someone did something like this and knows how to make .toDataURL() work as I need it?
Unless google serves this image with the correct Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, then you wont be able to use their image in canvas. This is due to not having CORS approval. You can read more about this here, but it essentially means:
Although you can use images without CORS approval in your canvas,
doing so taints the canvas. Once a canvas has been tainted, you can no
longer pull data back out of the canvas. For example, you can no
longer use the canvas toBlob(), toDataURL(), or getImageData()
methods; doing so will throw a security error.
This protects users from having private data exposed by using images
to pull information from remote web sites without permission.
I suggest just passing the URL to your server-side language and using curl to download the image. Be careful to sanitise this though!
EDIT:
As this answer is still the accepted answer, you should check out #shadyshrif's answer, which is to use:
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This will only work if you have the correct permissions, but will at least allow you to do what you want.
Just use the crossOrigin attribute and pass 'anonymous' as the second parameter
var img = new Image();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url;
This method will prevent you from getting an 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error from the server you are accessing to.
var img = new Image();
var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
img.src = url + '?' + timestamp;
Try the code below ...
<img crossOrigin="anonymous"
id="imgpicture"
fall-back="images/penang realty,Apartment,house,condominium,terrace house,semi d,detached,
bungalow,high end luxury properties,landed properties,gated guarded house.png"
ng-src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"
height="220"
width="200"
class="watermark">
In my case I was using the WebBrowser control (forcing IE 11) and I could not get past the error. Switching to CefSharp which uses Chrome solved it for me.
I had the same error message. I had the file in a simple .html, when I passed the file to php in Apache it worked
html2canvas(document.querySelector('#toPrint')).then(canvas => {
let pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'mm', 'a4');
pdf.addImage(canvas.toDataURL('image/png'), 'PNG', 0, 0, 211, 298);
pdf.save(filename);
});
if the picture from the 3rd party site didn't set the header for cors ("access-control-allow-origin"), you can never download the picture file through chrome,
even if you use the setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
Here are some suggestions
hack chrome (use an extension, this will only work on your machine)
proxy the image through a service running on your site. The browser will see the domain as your site. This requires your service to request the image from the 3rd party.
By using fabric js we can solve this security error issue in IE.
function getBase64FromImageUrl(URL) {
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
var canvas1 = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas1.width = this.width;
canvas1.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL({format: "png"});
};
img.src = URL;
}
When using toDataUrl() to set the source of an image tag I am finding that the image when saved is a great deal larger than the original image.
In the example below I am not specifying a second param for the toDataUrl function so the default quality is being used. This is resulting in an image much larger that the original image size. When specifying 1 for full quality the image generated is even larger.
Does anybody know why this is happening or how I can stop it?
// create image
var image = document.createElement('img');
// set src using remote image location
image.src = 'test.jpg';
// wait til it has loaded
image.onload = function (){
// set up variables
var fWidth = image.width;
var fHeight = image.height;
// create canvas
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.id = 'canvas';
canvas.width = fWidth;
canvas.height = fHeight;
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
// draw image to canvas
context.drawImage(image, 0, 0, fWidth, fHeight, 0, 0, fWidth, fHeight);
// get data url
dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg');
// this image when saved is much larger than the image loaded in
document.write('<img src="' + dataUrl + '" />');
}
Thank you :D
Here is an example, unfortunately the image cannot be cross domain and so I am having to just pull one of the jsfiddle images.
http://jsfiddle.net/ptSUd/
The image is 7.4kb, if you then save the image which is being output you will see that it is 10kb. The difference is more noticeable with more detailed images. If you set the toDataUrl quality to 1, the image is then 17kb.
I am also using FireFox 10 for this, when using Chrome the image sizes are still larger but not by as much.
The string returned by the toDataURL() method does not represent the original data.
I have just performed some extensive tests, which showed that the created data-URL depends on the browser (not on the operating system).
Environment - md5 sum - file size
Original file - c9eaf8f2aeb1b383ff2f1c68c0ae1085 - 4776 bytes
WinXP Chrome 17.0.963.79 - 94913afdaba3421da6ddad642132354a - 7702 bytes
Linux Chrome 17.0.963.79 - 94913afdaba3421da6ddad642132354a - 7702 bytes
Linux Firefox 10.0.2 - 4f184006e00a44f6f2dae7ba3982895e - 3909 bytes
The method of getting the data-URI does not matter, the following snippet was used to verify that the data-URI from a file upload are also different:
Test case: http://jsfiddle.net/Fkykx/
<input type="file" id="file"><script>
document.getElementById('file').onchange=function() {
var filereader = new FileReader();
filereader.onload = function(event) {
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
var c = document.createElement('canvas'); // Create canvas
c.width = img.width;
c.height = img.height; c.getContext('2d').drawImage(img,0,0,img.width,img.height);
var toAppend = new Image;
toAppend.title = 'Imported via upload, drawn in a canvas';
toAppend.src = c.toDataURL('image/png');
document.body.appendChild(toAppend);
}
img.src = event.target.result; // Set src from upload, original byte sequence
img.title = 'Imported via file upload';
document.body.appendChild(img);
};
filereader.readAsDataURL(this.files[0]);
}
</script>
The size of the image is determined mostly by the quality of the encoder built into the browser. It has very little to do with the size of the original image. Once you draw anything onto a canvas all you have are pixels, you no longer have the original image. toDataURL does not magically reconstitute an image that was painted onto the canvas. If you want a file with the same size as the original image: use the original image.
Looks like kirilloid and Rob nailed it. I had this issue too and it appears to be a combo:
the dataURL uses base64 encoding which makes it around 1.37 X larger
each browser processes the toDataURL function differently
base64 encoded image size
I tested my thumbnail generator in win8.1 firefox and chrome and got dataURL string sizes:
firefox = 3.72kB
chrome = 3.24kB
My original image when converted to dataURL went from 32kB to 45kB.
I think the base64 part is the larger factor so I guess my plan now is to convert the dataURL back to a binary byte array before I store it on the server (probably on the client side because my server's lazy).