package utils import ( "encoding/base64" "fmt" "io" "net/http" "strings" "time" ) var base64DownloadClient http.Client = http.Client{ Timeout: 30 * time.Second, } // GetContentURIAsBase64 checks if the string is an URL, if it's an URL downloads the content in memory encodes it in base64 and returns the base64 string, otherwise returns the string by stripping base64 data headers func GetContentURIAsBase64(s string) (string, error) { if strings.HasPrefix(s, "http") { // download the image resp, err := base64DownloadClient.Get(s) if err != nil { return "", err } defer resp.Body.Close() // read the image data into memory data, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body) if err != nil { return "", err } // encode the image data in base64 encoded := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(data) // return the base64 string return encoded, nil } // if the string instead is prefixed with "data:image/...;base64,", drop it dropPrefix := []string{"data:image/jpeg;base64,", "data:image/png;base64,"} for _, prefix := range dropPrefix { if strings.HasPrefix(s, prefix) { return strings.ReplaceAll(s, prefix, ""), nil } } return "", fmt.Errorf("not valid string") }