javascript - Upload Base64 Image Facebook Graph API

Question

I'm trying to upload a base64 image to a FaceBook page using Node.js. I have managed to get the upload working with all the multipart data etc should I read the file from the filesystem (ie. using fs.readFileSync('c:a.jpg')

However, should I use the base64 encoded image and try upload it, it give me the following error : {"error":{"message":"(#1) An unknown error occurred","type":"OAuthException","code":1}}

I have tried converting it to binary by new Buffer(b64string, 'base64'); and uploading that, but no luck.

I have been struggling with this for 3 days now, so anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

Edit : If anyone also knows how I could convert the base64 to binary and successfully upload it, that would also work for me.

Edit : Code Snippet

var postDetails = separator + newlineConstant + 'Content-Disposition: form-data;name="access_token"' + newlineConstant + newlineConstant + accessToken + newlineConstant + separator;

postDetails = postDetails + newlineConstant + 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="message"' + newlineConstant + newlineConstant + message + newlineConstant;

//Add the Image information
var fileDetailsString = '';
var index = 0;
var multipartBody = new Buffer(0);
images.forEach(function (currentImage) {
    fileDetailsString = fileDetailsString + separator + newlineConstant + 'Content-Disposition: file; name="source"; filename="Image' + index + '"' + newlineConstant + 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' + newlineConstant + newlineConstant;
    index++;

    multipartBody = Buffer.concat([multipartBody, new Buffer(fileDetailsString), currentImage]); //This is what I would use if Bianry data was passed in 

    currentImage = new Buffer (currentImage.toString('base64'), 'base64'); // The following lines are what I would use for base64 image being passed in (The appropriate lines would be enabled/disabled if I was using Binary/base64)
    multipartBody = Buffer.concat([multipartBody, new Buffer(fileDetailsString), currentImage]);
});

multipartBody = Buffer.concat([new Buffer(postDetails), multipartBody, new Buffer(footer)]);

Answer 1

I hope this will be useful. By doing photo upload to FB only with the help of javascript you can use the following method. Required thing here are imageData(which is base64 format of image) and the mime type.

try {
    blob = dataURItoBlob(imageData,mimeType);
} catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
}

var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("access_token",accessToken);
fd.append("source", blob);
fd.append("message","Kiss");

try {
   $.ajax({
        url:"https://graph.facebook.com/" + <<userID received on getting user details>> + "/photos?access_token=" + <<user accessToken>>,
        type:"POST",
        data:fd,
        processData:false,
        contentType:false,
        cache:false,
        success:function(data){
            console.log("success " + data);
        },
        error:function(shr,status,data){
            console.log("error " + data + " Status " + shr.status);
        },
        complete:function(){
            console.log("Ajax Complete");
        }
   });

} catch(e) {
    console.log(e);
}

function dataURItoBlob(dataURI,mime) {
    // convert base64 to raw binary data held in a string
    // doesn't handle URLEncoded DataURIs

    var byteString = window.atob(dataURI);

    // separate out the mime component


    // write the bytes of the string to an ArrayBuffer
    //var ab = new ArrayBuffer(byteString.length);
    var ia = new Uint8Array(byteString.length);
    for (var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
        ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
    }

    // write the ArrayBuffer to a blob, and you're done
    var blob = new Blob([ia], { type: mime });

    return blob;
}

//EDIT AJAX SYNTAX