How can I save a base64-encoded image to disk?

This did it for me simply and perfectly.

Excellent explanation by Scott Robinson

From image to base64 string

let buff = fs.readFileSync('stack-abuse-logo.png');
let base64data = buff.toString('base64');

From base64 string to image

let buff = Buffer.from(data, 'base64');
fs.writeFileSync('stack-abuse-logo-out.png', buff);

I also had to save Base64 encoded images that are part of data URLs, so I ended up making a small npm module to do it in case I (or someone else) needed to do it again in the future. It's called ba64.

Simply put, it takes a data URL with a Base64 encoded image and saves the image to your file system. It can save synchronously or asynchronously. It also has two helper functions, one to get the file extension of the image, and the other to separate the Base64 encoding from the data: scheme prefix.

Here's an example:

var ba64 = require("ba64"),
    data_url = "data:image/jpeg;base64,[Base64 encoded image goes here]";

// Save the image synchronously.
ba64.writeImageSync("myimage", data_url); // Saves myimage.jpeg.

// Or save the image asynchronously.
ba64.writeImage("myimage", data_url, function(err){
    if (err) throw err;

    console.log("Image saved successfully");

    // do stuff
});

Install it: npm i ba64 -S. Repo is on GitHub: https://github.com/HarryStevens/ba64.

P.S. It occurred to me later that ba64 is probably a bad name for the module since people may assume it does Base64 encoding and decoding, which it doesn't (there are lots of modules that already do that). Oh well.

Below function to save files, just pass your base64 file, it return filename save it in DB.

import fs from 'fs';
 const uuid = require('uuid/v1');

/*Download the base64 image in the server and returns the filename and path of image.*/
function saveImage(baseImage) {
    /*path of the folder where your project is saved. (In my case i got it from config file, root path of project).*/
    const uploadPath = "/home/documents/project";
    //path of folder where you want to save the image.
    const localPath = `${uploadPath}/uploads/images/`;
    //Find extension of file
    const ext = baseImage.substring(baseImage.indexOf("/")+1, baseImage.indexOf(";base64"));
    const fileType = baseImage.substring("data:".length,baseImage.indexOf("/"));
    //Forming regex to extract base64 data of file.
    const regex = new RegExp(`^data:${fileType}\/${ext};base64,`, 'gi');
    //Extract base64 data.
    const base64Data = baseImage.replace(regex, "");
    const filename = `${uuid()}.${ext}`;

    //Check that if directory is present or not.
    if(!fs.existsSync(`${uploadPath}/uploads/`)) {
        fs.mkdirSync(`${uploadPath}/uploads/`);
    }
    if (!fs.existsSync(localPath)) {
        fs.mkdirSync(localPath);
    }
    fs.writeFileSync(localPath+filename, base64Data, 'base64');
    return filename;
}

You can use a third-party library like base64-img or base64-to-image.

1. base64-img

const base64Img = require('base64-img');

const data = 'data:image/png;base64,...';
const destpath = 'dir/to/save/image';
const filename = 'some-filename';

base64Img.img(data, destpath, filename, (err, filepath) => {}); // Asynchronous using

const filepath = base64Img.imgSync(data, destpath, filename); // Synchronous using

2. base64-to-image

const base64ToImage = require('base64-to-image');

const base64Str = 'data:image/png;base64,...';
const path = 'dir/to/save/image/'; // Add trailing slash
const optionalObj = { fileName: 'some-filename', type: 'png' };

const { imageType, fileName } = base64ToImage(base64Str, path, optionalObj); // Only synchronous using

is very simple

const path = require('path');
const { readFile, stat, writeFile } = require("fs/promises");

(async () => {

    try {

        const contents = await readFile(path.join(__dirname, 'clau.jpg'), { encoding: 'base64' });

        console.log(contents);

        await writeFile(path.join(__dirname, 'claumia.jpg'), Buffer.from(contents, 'base64'));

    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error)
    }

})()