# string-to-arraybuffer

> Convert base64/datauri/plain string to ArrayBuffer

Latest version **1.0.2** (published 2018-11-09) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install string-to-arraybuffer
pnpm add string-to-arraybuffer
yarn add string-to-arraybuffer
bun add string-to-arraybuffer
```

## Health

**Score 15/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.2 |
| Published | 2018-11-09 |
| First published | 2017-06-27 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 9 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 10 |
| Author | Dima Yv |
| Maintainers | dfcreative, dy |
| Keywords | arraybuffer, array-buffer, array, buffer, string, base64, data-uri, data url, uint8 |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/string-to-arraybuffer
- Repository: https://github.com/dy/string-to-arraybuffer
- Homepage: https://github.com/dy/string-to-arraybuffer#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/dy/string-to-arraybuffer/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/string-to-arraybuffer

## Dependencies (2)

- [atob-lite](https://npm.io/package/atob-lite.md) ^2.0.0
- [is-base64](https://npm.io/package/is-base64.md) ^0.1.0

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## Recent versions

- 1.0.2 (latest) — 2018-11-09
- 1.0.1 — 2018-10-15
- 1.0.0 — 2017-06-27

## README

# string-to-arraybuffer [![unstable](https://img.shields.io/badge/stability-unstable-orange.svg)](http://github.com/badges/stability-badges) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/dy/string-to-arraybuffer.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/dy/string-to-arraybuffer)

Turn dataURI/base64/plain string into an _ArrayBuffer_.

[![npm install string-to-arraybuffer](https://nodei.co/npm/string-to-arraybuffer.png?mini=true)](https://npmjs.org/package/string-to-arraybuffer/)

```js
var str2ab = require('string-to-arraybuffer')

// Plain 'Hello World!'
var abuf1 = str2ab('Hello World!')

// Base-64 'Hello World!'
var abuf2 = str2ab('SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkIQ%3D%3D')

// Barebones data-uri 'Hello World!'
var abuf3 = str2ab('data:,Hello%2C%20World!')

// Base-64 data-uri 'Hello World!'
var abuf4 = str2ab('data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkIQ%3D%3D')
```

### Related

* [arraybuffer-to-string](https://github.com/dy/arraybuffer-to-string) − represent binary data in string
* [data-uri-to-buffer](https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-uri-to-buffer) − decode URI string to Buffer.
* [to-array-buffer](https://www.npmjs.com/package/to-array-buffer) − convert anything to ArrayBuffer.

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