Is there any way to specify a suggested filename when using data URI

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If for example you follow the link   data application octet-stream base64 SGVsbG8   The browser will prompt you to download a file consisting of the data held as base64 in the hyperlink itself   Is there any way of suggesting a default name in the markup   If not  is there a JavaScript solution

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The following Javascript snippet works in Chrome by using the new 'download' attribute of links and simulating a click.

function downloadWithName(uri, name) {
  var link = document.createElement("a");
  link.download = name;
  link.href = uri;
  link.click();
}

And the following example shows it's use:

downloadWithName("data:,Hello%2C%20World!", "helloWorld.txt")

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Using service workers  this is finally possible in the truest sense    Create a fake URL  For example  saveAs myPrettyName jpg Use URL in  lt a href   lt img src  window open  url    absolutely anything that can be done with a  real  URL    Inside the worker  catch the fetch event  and respond with the correct data    The browser will now suggest myPrettyName jpg even if the user opens the file in a new tab  and tries to save it there  It will be exactly as if the file had come from the server      In the service worker self addEventListener   fetch   function e        if  e request url startsWith    blobUri                        Logic to select correct dataUri  and return it as a Response         e respondWith  dataURLAsRequest

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You actually can achieve this  in Chrome and FireFox   Try the following url  it will download the code that was used   data text html base64 PGEgaHJlZj0iZGF0YTp0ZXh0L2h0bWw7YmFzZTY0LFBHRWdhSEpsWmowaVVGVlVYMFJCVkVGZlZWSkpYMGhGVWtVaUlHUnZkMjVzYjJGa1BTSjBaWE4wTG1oMGJXd2lQZ284YzJOeWFYQjBQZ3BrYjJOMWJXVnVkQzV4ZFdWeWVWTmxiR1ZqZEc5eUtDZGhKeWt1WTJ4cFkyc29LVHNLUEM5elkzSnBjSFErIiBkb3dubG9hZD0idGVzdC5odG1sIj4KPHNjcmlwdD4KZG9jdW1lbnQucXVlcnlTZWxlY3RvcignYScpLmNsaWNrKCk7Cjwvc2NyaXB0Pg

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According to RFC 2397  no  there isn t   Nor does there appear to be any attribute of the  lt a gt  element that you can use either   However HTML5 has subsequently introduced the download attribute on the  lt a gt  element  although at the time of writing support is not universal  no MSIE support  for example

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There is a tiny workaround script on Google Code that worked for me    http   code google com p download-data-uri   It adds a form with the data in it  submits it and then removes the form again  Hacky  but it did the job for me  Requires jQuery    This thread showed up in Google before the Google Code page and I thought it might be helpful to have the link in here  too

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This one works with Firefox 43 0  older not tested    dl js   function download       var msg  Hello world      var blob   new File  msg    hello bin     type    application octet-stream        var a   document createElement  a      a href   URL createObjectURL blob      window location href a      dl html   lt html lang  en  xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  gt    lt head gt       lt meta charset  utf-8   gt       lt title gt Test lt  title gt       lt script type  text javascript  src  dl js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt button id  create  type  button  onclick  download     gt Download lt  button gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    If button is clicked it offered a file named hello bin for download  Trick is to use File instead of Blob   reference  https   developer mozilla org de docs Web API File

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According to RFC 2397  no  there isn t   Nor does there appear to be any attribute of the  lt a gt  element that you can use either   However HTML5 has subsequently introduced the download attribute on the  lt a gt  element  although at the time of writing support is not universal  no MSIE support  for example

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You actually can achieve this  in Chrome and FireFox   Try the following url  it will download the code that was used   data text html base64 PGEgaHJlZj0iZGF0YTp0ZXh0L2h0bWw7YmFzZTY0LFBHRWdhSEpsWmowaVVGVlVYMFJCVkVGZlZWSkpYMGhGVWtVaUlHUnZkMjVzYjJGa1BTSjBaWE4wTG1oMGJXd2lQZ284YzJOeWFYQjBQZ3BrYjJOMWJXVnVkQzV4ZFdWeWVWTmxiR1ZqZEc5eUtDZGhKeWt1WTJ4cFkyc29LVHNLUEM5elkzSnBjSFErIiBkb3dubG9hZD0idGVzdC5odG1sIj4KPHNjcmlwdD4KZG9jdW1lbnQucXVlcnlTZWxlY3RvcignYScpLmNsaWNrKCk7Cjwvc2NyaXB0Pg

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No   The entire purpose is that it s a datastream  not a file  The data source should not have any knowledge of the user agent handling it as a file    and it doesn t

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you can add a download attribute to the anchor element    sample    lt a download  abcd cer      href  data application stream base64 MIIDhTC        gt down lt  a gt

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lt a href    download     gt  works for left-click and right-click - gt  save link as    but  lt img src    download     gt  doesn t work for right-click - gt  save image as      quot Download jped quot  is suggested  If you combine both  lt a href    download    gt  lt img src    gt  lt  a gt  it works for left-click  right-click - gt  save link as    right-click - gt  save image as   You have to write the data-uri twice  href and src   so for large image files it is better to copy the uri with javascript  tested with Chrome Edge 88

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It s kind of hackish  but I ve been in the same situation before  I was dynamically generating a text file in javascript and wanted to provide it for download by encoding it with the data-URI   This is possible with minormajor user intervention  Generate a link  lt a href  data      gt right-click me and select  Save Link As     and save as  example txt  lt  a gt   As I said  this is inelegant  but it works if you do not need a professional solution   This could be made less painful by using flash to copy the name into the clipboard first  Of course if you let yourself use Flash or Java  now with less and less browser support I think    you could probably find a another way to do this

User · Answer

The following Javascript snippet works in Chrome by using the new 'download' attribute of links and simulating a click.

function downloadWithName(uri, name) {
  var link = document.createElement("a");
  link.download = name;
  link.href = uri;
  link.click();
}

And the following example shows it's use:

downloadWithName("data:,Hello%2C%20World!", "helloWorld.txt")

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Chrome makes this very simple these days   function saveContent fileContents  fileName        var link   document createElement  a        link download   fileName      link href    data      fileContents      link click

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var isIE      cc on    false      document documentMode     At least IE6 var sessionId    n   var token     n   var caseId   CaseIDNumber     n   var url   casewebUrl   n   var uri   sessionId   token   caseId   url   data in file var fileName    file i4cvf     any file name with any extension if  isIE                    var fileData      ufeff    uri               var blobObject   new Blob fileData               window navigator msSaveOrOpenBlob blobObject  fileName             else   chrome               window requestFileSystem   window requestFileSystem    window webkitRequestFileSystem           window requestFileSystem window TEMPORARY  1024   1024  function  fs                fs root getFile fileName    create  true    function  fileEntry                     fileEntry createWriter function  fileWriter                        var fileData      ufeff    uri                       var blob   new Blob fileData                       fileWriter addEventListener  writeend   function                              var fileUrl   fileEntry toURL                            var link   document createElement  a                            link href   fileUrl                          link download   fileName                          document body appendChild link                           link click                            document body removeChild link                          false                       fileWriter write blob                      function                         function                      function

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I ve looked a bit in firefox sources in netwerk protocol data nsDataHandler cpp  data handler only parses content type and charset  and looks if there is   base64  in the string  the rfc specifices no filename and at least firefox handles no filename for it  the code generates a random name plus   part   I ve also checked firefox log     b2e140   DOCSHELL 6e5ae00 InternalLoad data application octet-stream base64 SGVsbG8   b2e140   Found extension     filename is     handling attachment  0   b2e140   HelperAppService  DoContent  mime  application octet-stream   extension     b2e140   Getting mimeinfo from type  application octet-stream  ext     b2e140   Extension lookup on    found  0x0  b2e140   Ext  lookup for    found 0x0  b2e140   OS gave back 0x43609a0 - found  0  b2e140   Searched extras  by type   rv 0x80004005  b2e140   MIME Info Summary  Type  application octet-stream   Primary Ext     b2e140   Type Ext lookup found 0x43609a0   interesting files if you want to look at mozilla sources   data uri handler  netwerk protocol data nsDataHandler cpp where mozilla decides the filename  uriloader exthandler nsExternalHelperAppService cpp InternalLoad string in the log  docshell base nsDocShell cpp   I think you can stop searching a solution for now  because I suspect there is none     as noticed in this thread html5 has download attribute  it works also on firefox 20 http   www whatwg org specs web-apps current-work multipage links html attr-hyperlink-download

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Chrome makes this very simple these days   function saveContent fileContents  fileName        var link   document createElement  a        link download   fileName      link href    data      fileContents      link click

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Here is a jQuery version based off of Holf s version and works with Chrome and Firefox whereas his version seems to only work with Chrome   It s a little strange to add something to the body to do this but if someone has a better option I m all for it   var exportFileName    export-    filename      lt a gt  lt  a gt           download   exportFileName       href    data      JSON stringify exportData  null 5        id    exportDataID     appendTo  body   0  click   remove

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Using service workers  this is finally possible in the truest sense    Create a fake URL  For example  saveAs myPrettyName jpg Use URL in  lt a href   lt img src  window open  url    absolutely anything that can be done with a  real  URL    Inside the worker  catch the fetch event  and respond with the correct data    The browser will now suggest myPrettyName jpg even if the user opens the file in a new tab  and tries to save it there  It will be exactly as if the file had come from the server      In the service worker self addEventListener   fetch   function e        if  e request url startsWith    blobUri                        Logic to select correct dataUri  and return it as a Response         e respondWith  dataURLAsRequest

User · Answer

Here is a jQuery version based off of Holf s version and works with Chrome and Firefox whereas his version seems to only work with Chrome   It s a little strange to add something to the body to do this but if someone has a better option I m all for it   var exportFileName    export-    filename      lt a gt  lt  a gt           download   exportFileName       href    data      JSON stringify exportData  null 5        id    exportDataID     appendTo  body   0  click   remove

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According to RFC 2397  no  there isn t   Nor does there appear to be any attribute of the  lt a gt  element that you can use either   However HTML5 has subsequently introduced the download attribute on the  lt a gt  element  although at the time of writing support is not universal  no MSIE support  for example

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HTML only  use the download attribute    x000D   x000D   lt a download  logo gif  href  data image gif base64 R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP   yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7  gt Download transparent png lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D      Javascript only  you can save any data URI with this code    x000D   x000D  function saveAs uri  filename    x000D    var link   document createElement  a    x000D    if  typeof link download      string     x000D      link href   uri  x000D      link download   filename  x000D   x000D        Firefox requires the link to be in the body x000D      document body appendChild link   x000D       x000D        simulate click x000D      link click    x000D   x000D        remove the link when done x000D      document body removeChild link   x000D      else   x000D      window open uri   x000D      x000D    x000D   x000D  var file    data image gif base64 R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP   yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7  x000D  saveAs file   logo gif    x000D   x000D   x000D    Chrome  Firefox  and Edge 13  will use the specified filename   IE11  Edge 12  and Safari 9  which don t support the download attribute  will download the file with their default name or they will simply display it in a new tab  if it s of a supported file type  images  videos  audio files

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This one works with Firefox 43 0  older not tested    dl js   function download       var msg  Hello world      var blob   new File  msg    hello bin     type    application octet-stream        var a   document createElement  a      a href   URL createObjectURL blob      window location href a      dl html   lt html lang  en  xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  gt    lt head gt       lt meta charset  utf-8   gt       lt title gt Test lt  title gt       lt script type  text javascript  src  dl js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt button id  create  type  button  onclick  download     gt Download lt  button gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    If button is clicked it offered a file named hello bin for download  Trick is to use File instead of Blob   reference  https   developer mozilla org de docs Web API File

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Use the download attribute   lt a download  FileName  href  your url  gt   The download attribute works on Chrome  Firefox  Edge  Opera  desktop Safari 10   iOS Safari 13   and not IE11

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No   The entire purpose is that it s a datastream  not a file  The data source should not have any knowledge of the user agent handling it as a file    and it doesn t

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HTML only  use the download attribute    x000D   x000D   lt a download  logo gif  href  data image gif base64 R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP   yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7  gt Download transparent png lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D      Javascript only  you can save any data URI with this code    x000D   x000D  function saveAs uri  filename    x000D    var link   document createElement  a    x000D    if  typeof link download      string     x000D      link href   uri  x000D      link download   filename  x000D   x000D        Firefox requires the link to be in the body x000D      document body appendChild link   x000D       x000D        simulate click x000D      link click    x000D   x000D        remove the link when done x000D      document body removeChild link   x000D      else   x000D      window open uri   x000D      x000D    x000D   x000D  var file    data image gif base64 R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP   yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7  x000D  saveAs file   logo gif    x000D   x000D   x000D    Chrome  Firefox  and Edge 13  will use the specified filename   IE11  Edge 12  and Safari 9  which don t support the download attribute  will download the file with their default name or they will simply display it in a new tab  if it s of a supported file type  images  videos  audio files

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you can add a download attribute to the anchor element    sample    lt a download  abcd cer      href  data application stream base64 MIIDhTC        gt down lt  a gt

User · Answer

According to RFC 2397  no  there isn t   Nor does there appear to be any attribute of the  lt a gt  element that you can use either   However HTML5 has subsequently introduced the download attribute on the  lt a gt  element  although at the time of writing support is not universal  no MSIE support  for example

User · Answer

lt a href    download     gt  works for left-click and right-click - gt  save link as    but  lt img src    download     gt  doesn t work for right-click - gt  save image as      quot Download jped quot  is suggested  If you combine both  lt a href    download    gt  lt img src    gt  lt  a gt  it works for left-click  right-click - gt  save link as    right-click - gt  save image as   You have to write the data-uri twice  href and src   so for large image files it is better to copy the uri with javascript  tested with Chrome Edge 88

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Look at this link  http   lists w3 org Archives Public uri 2010Feb 0069 html  Quote      It even works  as in  doesn t cause a problem  with  base64 at the end   like this  in Opera at least        data text plain charset utf-8 headers Content-Disposition 3A 20attachment 3B 20filename 3D 22with 20spaces txt 22 0D 0AContent-Language 3A 20en base64 4oiaDQo 3D   Also there is some info in the rest messages of the discussion

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Use the download attribute   lt a download  FileName  href  your url  gt   The download attribute works on Chrome  Firefox  Edge  Opera  desktop Safari 10   iOS Safari 13   and not IE11

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I ve looked a bit in firefox sources in netwerk protocol data nsDataHandler cpp  data handler only parses content type and charset  and looks if there is   base64  in the string  the rfc specifices no filename and at least firefox handles no filename for it  the code generates a random name plus   part   I ve also checked firefox log     b2e140   DOCSHELL 6e5ae00 InternalLoad data application octet-stream base64 SGVsbG8   b2e140   Found extension     filename is     handling attachment  0   b2e140   HelperAppService  DoContent  mime  application octet-stream   extension     b2e140   Getting mimeinfo from type  application octet-stream  ext     b2e140   Extension lookup on    found  0x0  b2e140   Ext  lookup for    found 0x0  b2e140   OS gave back 0x43609a0 - found  0  b2e140   Searched extras  by type   rv 0x80004005  b2e140   MIME Info Summary  Type  application octet-stream   Primary Ext     b2e140   Type Ext lookup found 0x43609a0   interesting files if you want to look at mozilla sources   data uri handler  netwerk protocol data nsDataHandler cpp where mozilla decides the filename  uriloader exthandler nsExternalHelperAppService cpp InternalLoad string in the log  docshell base nsDocShell cpp   I think you can stop searching a solution for now  because I suspect there is none     as noticed in this thread html5 has download attribute  it works also on firefox 20 http   www whatwg org specs web-apps current-work multipage links html attr-hyperlink-download

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var isIE      cc on    false      document documentMode     At least IE6 var sessionId    n   var token     n   var caseId   CaseIDNumber     n   var url   casewebUrl   n   var uri   sessionId   token   caseId   url   data in file var fileName    file i4cvf     any file name with any extension if  isIE                    var fileData      ufeff    uri               var blobObject   new Blob fileData               window navigator msSaveOrOpenBlob blobObject  fileName             else   chrome               window requestFileSystem   window requestFileSystem    window webkitRequestFileSystem           window requestFileSystem window TEMPORARY  1024   1024  function  fs                fs root getFile fileName    create  true    function  fileEntry                     fileEntry createWriter function  fileWriter                        var fileData      ufeff    uri                       var blob   new Blob fileData                       fileWriter addEventListener  writeend   function                              var fileUrl   fileEntry toURL                            var link   document createElement  a                            link href   fileUrl                          link download   fileName                          document body appendChild link                           link click                            document body removeChild link                          false                       fileWriter write blob                      function                         function                      function

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Look at this link  http   lists w3 org Archives Public uri 2010Feb 0069 html  Quote      It even works  as in  doesn t cause a problem  with  base64 at the end   like this  in Opera at least        data text plain charset utf-8 headers Content-Disposition 3A 20attachment 3B 20filename 3D 22with 20spaces txt 22 0D 0AContent-Language 3A 20en base64 4oiaDQo 3D   Also there is some info in the rest messages of the discussion

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There is a tiny workaround script on Google Code that worked for me    http   code google com p download-data-uri   It adds a form with the data in it  submits it and then removes the form again  Hacky  but it did the job for me  Requires jQuery    This thread showed up in Google before the Google Code page and I thought it might be helpful to have the link in here  too

User · Answer

It s kind of hackish  but I ve been in the same situation before  I was dynamically generating a text file in javascript and wanted to provide it for download by encoding it with the data-URI   This is possible with minormajor user intervention  Generate a link  lt a href  data      gt right-click me and select  Save Link As     and save as  example txt  lt  a gt   As I said  this is inelegant  but it works if you do not need a professional solution   This could be made less painful by using flash to copy the name into the clipboard first  Of course if you let yourself use Flash or Java  now with less and less browser support I think    you could probably find a another way to do this

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