file-to-unicode-base64-data-uri

A simple, efficient utility for converting files to Unicode base64-encoded data URIs.

Features

• 📄 Auto-detects the MIME type.
• ♻️ Streaming/generator interface so your program never loads the file fully into memory except for the output string.
• ✅ Python 2 and 3 compatible.

Install

pip install file-to-unicode-base64-data-uri

Usage

# coding=utf-8
from __future__ import print_function
from codecs import open
from file_to_unicode_base64_data_uri import file_to_unicode_base64_data_uri 

# Get a single string (data URI)
data_url = file_to_unicode_base64_data_uri('example.png')
print(data_url[:80] + u'...')

# Stream out in chunks (memory efficient for huge files)
from file_to_unicode_base64_data_uri import unicode_base64_data_uri_fragments_generator

with open('output.txt', 'w', 'utf-8') as out:
    for fragment in unicode_base64_data_uri_fragments_generator('large_video.mp4'):
        out.write(fragment)

Why?

Many libraries read the entire file into memory before encoding or require third-party dependencies. This utility is pure Python, efficient, and works everywhere, even for large files.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit pull requests or open issues on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.