Base64

Available since v0.5.0

Encode and Decode Base64

local base64 = require "base64"

base64.encode(value)

Encodes a Lua string/bytes as a base64 string.

local bytes = io.open("binfile", "rb"):read("*a")
local str = base64.encode(bytes) -- or just calling base64(bytes) directly

base64.decode(str)

Decodes a base64 string into a Lua string/bytes.

local bytes = base64.decode(str)

base64.urlsafe()

Returns a URL-safe base64 encoder/decoder.

local base64 = require("base64").urlsafe()

-- The rest of the API is the same