Data URI manipulation made easy.
This isn't very robust, and will reject a number of valid data URIs. However, it meets the most useful case: a mimetype, a charset, and the base64 flag.
Installation
$ pip install python-datauri
Parsing
>>> from datauri import DataURI >>> uri = DataURI('data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,VGhlIHF1aWNrIGJyb3duIGZveCBqdW1wZWQgb3ZlciB0aGUgbGF6eSBkb2cu') >>> uri.mimetype 'text/plain' >>> uri.charset 'utf-8' >>> uri.is_base64 True >>> uri.data b'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'
Note that DataURI.data will always return bytes, (which in Python 2 is the same as a string).
Use DataURI.text to get the text type (str on Python 3.x, unicode on Python 2.x).
Creating from a string
>>> from datauri import DataURI >>> made = DataURI.make('text/plain', charset='us-ascii', base64=True, data='This is a message.') >>> made DataURI('data:text/plain;charset=us-ascii;base64,VGhpcyBpcyBhIG1lc3NhZ2Uu') >>> made.data b'This is a message.'
Creating from a file
This is really just a convenience method.
>>> from datauri import DataURI >>> png_uri = DataURI.from_file('somefile.png') >>> png_uri.mimetype 'image/png' >>> png_uri.data b'\x89PNG\r\n...'
License
This code is released under the Unlicense.
Credits
This is a repackaging of this Gist originally written by Zachary Voase.