Convert image from url to Base64

HTML

<img id="imageid" src="https://www.google.de/images/srpr/logo11w.png">

JavaScript

function getBase64Image(img) {
  var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
  canvas.width = img.width;
  canvas.height = img.height;
  var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
  ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
  var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
  return dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/?[A-z]*;base64,/);
}

var base64 = getBase64Image(document.getElementById("imageid"));

Special thanks to @Md. Hasan Mahmud for providing an improved regex that works with any image mime type in my comments!

This method requires the canvas element, which is perfectly supported.

• The MDN reference of HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL().
• And the official W3C documentation.