I'm writing innerHTML of dynamically created SVG-elements to a .txt-file:
function saveCustomSVG(data, filename) {
var blob = new Blob([ data ], { type: "text/plain" });
var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = url;
a.download = filename;
a.click();
};
saveCustomSVG(customShapes.innerHTML, "svgCode.txt")
It's working fine, just that all dynamically created stuff gets written in one endless line.
Would it be possible to add a line-break after each closing tag at any stage of the process?
I tried parent.appentChild('br') after each new el, but didn't work.
It currently looks like this:
I want to Write Data to existing file using JavaScript.
I don't want to print it on console.
I want to Actually Write data to abc.txt.
I read many answered question but every where they are printing on console.
at some place they have given code but its not working.
So please can any one help me How to actually write data to File.
I referred the code but its not working:
its giving error:
Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor
on chrome and
SecurityError: The operation is insecure.
on Mozilla
var f = "sometextfile.txt";
writeTextFile(f, "Spoon")
writeTextFile(f, "Cheese monkey")
writeTextFile(f, "Onion")
function writeTextFile(afilename, output)
{
var txtFile =new File(afilename);
txtFile.writeln(output);
txtFile.close();
}
So can we actually write data to file using only Javascript or NOT?
You can create files in browser using Blob and URL.createObjectURL. All recent browsers support this.
You can not directly save the file you create, since that would cause massive security problems, but you can provide it as a download link for the user. You can suggest a file name via the download attribute of the link, in browsers that support the download attribute. As with any other download, the user downloading the file will have the final say on the file name though.
var textFile = null,
makeTextFile = function (text) {
var data = new Blob([text], {type: 'text/plain'});
// If we are replacing a previously generated file we need to
// manually revoke the object URL to avoid memory leaks.
if (textFile !== null) {
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(textFile);
}
textFile = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);
// returns a URL you can use as a href
return textFile;
};
Here's an example that uses this technique to save arbitrary text from a textarea.
If you want to immediately initiate the download instead of requiring the user to click on a link, you can use mouse events to simulate a mouse click on the link as Lifecube's answer did. I've created an updated example that uses this technique.
var create = document.getElementById('create'),
textbox = document.getElementById('textbox');
create.addEventListener('click', function () {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('download', 'info.txt');
link.href = makeTextFile(textbox.value);
document.body.appendChild(link);
// wait for the link to be added to the document
window.requestAnimationFrame(function () {
var event = new MouseEvent('click');
link.dispatchEvent(event);
document.body.removeChild(link);
});
}, false);
Some suggestions for this -
If you are trying to write a file on client machine, You can't do this in any cross-browser way. IE does have methods to enable "trusted" applications to use ActiveX objects to read/write file.
If you are trying to save it on your server then simply pass on the text data to your server and execute the file writing code using some server side language.
To store some information on the client side that is considerably small, you can go for cookies.
Using the HTML5 API for Local Storage.
If you are talking about browser javascript, you can not write data directly to local file for security reason. HTML 5 new API can only allow you to read files.
But if you want to write data, and enable user to download as a file to local. the following code works:
function download(strData, strFileName, strMimeType) {
var D = document,
A = arguments,
a = D.createElement("a"),
d = A[0],
n = A[1],
t = A[2] || "text/plain";
//build download link:
a.href = "data:" + strMimeType + "charset=utf-8," + escape(strData);
if (window.MSBlobBuilder) { // IE10
var bb = new MSBlobBuilder();
bb.append(strData);
return navigator.msSaveBlob(bb, strFileName);
} /* end if(window.MSBlobBuilder) */
if ('download' in a) { //FF20, CH19
a.setAttribute("download", n);
a.innerHTML = "downloading...";
D.body.appendChild(a);
setTimeout(function() {
var e = D.createEvent("MouseEvents");
e.initMouseEvent("click", true, false, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
a.dispatchEvent(e);
D.body.removeChild(a);
}, 66);
return true;
}; /* end if('download' in a) */
//do iframe dataURL download: (older W3)
var f = D.createElement("iframe");
D.body.appendChild(f);
f.src = "data:" + (A[2] ? A[2] : "application/octet-stream") + (window.btoa ? ";base64" : "") + "," + (window.btoa ? window.btoa : escape)(strData);
setTimeout(function() {
D.body.removeChild(f);
}, 333);
return true;
}
to use it:
download('the content of the file', 'filename.txt', 'text/plain');
Try
let a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = "data:application/octet-stream,"+encodeURIComponent("My DATA");
a.download = 'abc.txt';
a.click();
If you want to download binary data look here
Update
2020.06.14 I upgrade Chrome to 83.0 and above SO snippet stop works (reason: sandbox security restrictions) - but JSFiddle version works - here
Above answer is useful but, I found code which helps you to download text file directly on button click.
In this code you can also change filename as you wish. It's pure javascript function with HTML5.
Works for me!
function saveTextAsFile()
{
var textToWrite = document.getElementById("inputTextToSave").value;
var textFileAsBlob = new Blob([textToWrite], {type:'text/plain'});
var fileNameToSaveAs = document.getElementById("inputFileNameToSaveAs").value;
var downloadLink = document.createElement("a");
downloadLink.download = fileNameToSaveAs;
downloadLink.innerHTML = "Download File";
if (window.webkitURL != null)
{
// Chrome allows the link to be clicked
// without actually adding it to the DOM.
downloadLink.href = window.webkitURL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
}
else
{
// Firefox requires the link to be added to the DOM
// before it can be clicked.
downloadLink.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
downloadLink.onclick = destroyClickedElement;
downloadLink.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);
}
downloadLink.click();
}
const data = {name: 'Ronn', age: 27}; //sample json
const a = document.createElement('a');
const blob = new Blob([JSON.stringify(data)]);
a.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
a.download = 'sample-profile'; //filename to download
a.click();
Check Blob documentation here - Blob MDN to provide extra parameters for file type. By default it will make .txt file
In the case it is not possibile to use the new Blob solution, that is for sure the best solution in modern browser, it is still possible to use this simpler approach, that has a limit in the file size by the way:
function download() {
var fileContents=JSON.stringify(jsonObject, null, 2);
var fileName= "data.json";
var pp = document.createElement('a');
pp.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(fileContents));
pp.setAttribute('download', fileName);
pp.click();
}
setTimeout(function() {download()}, 500);
$('#download').on("click", function() {
function download() {
var jsonObject = {
"name": "John",
"age": 31,
"city": "New York"
};
var fileContents = JSON.stringify(jsonObject, null, 2);
var fileName = "data.json";
var pp = document.createElement('a');
pp.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(fileContents));
pp.setAttribute('download', fileName);
pp.click();
}
setTimeout(function() {
download()
}, 500);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="download">Download me</button>
Use the code by the user #useless-code above (https://stackoverflow.com/a/21016088/327386) to generate the file.
If you want to download the file automatically, pass the textFile that was just generated to this function:
var downloadFile = function downloadURL(url) {
var hiddenIFrameID = 'hiddenDownloader',
iframe = document.getElementById(hiddenIFrameID);
if (iframe === null) {
iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.id = hiddenIFrameID;
iframe.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
}
iframe.src = url;
}
I found good answers here, but also found a simpler way.
The button to create the blob and the download link can be combined in one link, as the link element can have an onclick attribute. (The reverse seems not possible, adding a href to a button does not work.)
You can style the link as a button using bootstrap, which is still pure javascript, except for styling.
Combining the button and the download link also reduces code, as fewer of those ugly getElementById calls are needed.
This example needs only one button click to create the text-blob and download it:
<a id="a_btn_writetofile" download="info.txt" href="#" class="btn btn-primary"
onclick="exportFile('This is some dummy data.\nAnd some more dummy data.\n', 'a_btn_writetofile')"
>
Write To File
</a>
<script>
// URL pointing to the Blob with the file contents
var objUrl = null;
// create the blob with file content, and attach the URL to the downloadlink;
// NB: link must have the download attribute
// this method can go to your library
function exportFile(fileContent, downloadLinkId) {
// revoke the old object URL to avoid memory leaks.
if (objUrl !== null) {
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(objUrl);
}
// create the object that contains the file data and that can be referred to with a URL
var data = new Blob([fileContent], { type: 'text/plain' });
objUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);
// attach the object to the download link (styled as button)
var downloadLinkButton = document.getElementById(downloadLinkId);
downloadLinkButton.href = objUrl;
};
</script>
Here is a single-page local-file version for use when you need the extra processing functionality of a scripting language.
Save the code below to a text file
Change the file extension from '.txt' to '.html'
Right-click > Open With... > notepad
Program word processing as needed, then save
Double-click html file to open in default browser
Result will be previewed in the black box, click download to get the resulting text file
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT>
// do text manipulation here
let string1 = 'test\r\n';
let string2 = 'export.';
// assemble final string
const finalText = string1 + string2;
// convert to blob
const data = new Blob([finalText], {type: 'text/plain'});
// create file link
const link = document.createElement('a');
link.innerHTML = 'download';
link.setAttribute('download', 'data.txt');
link.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);
document.body.appendChild(link);
// preview the output in a paragraph
const htmlBreak = string => {
return string.replace(/(?:\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '<br>');
}
const preview = document.createElement('p');
preview.innerHTML = htmlBreak(finalText);
preview.style.border = "1px solid black";
document.body.appendChild(preview);
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Ok so I wrote this program to avoid having to manually reformat several >6000 entry csv files by hand. It froze on the first run of the full file, then ran fine when i gave it a 1000 entry chunk i got 1000 files in my downloads folder. Now it won't download more than 51 at a time. The rest are converted to my XML format but they don't automatically download.
<script src="./papaparse.min.js"></script>
<script src="./jquery-2.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var data;
var j = 1001;
function handleFileSelect(evt) {
var file = evt.target.files[0];
Papa.parse(file, {
header: true,
dynamicTyping: false,
// preview: 5,
step: function(results, parser) {
j++
// console.log("Row data:", results.data);
// console.log("Row errors:", results.errors);
// $("#test").text(results.data["0"]["correct_answer"]);
var dataArray = [j,
results.data["0"]["question_id"],
results.data["0"]["node_id"],
results.data["0"]["part_text"],
results.data["0"]["distractor_1"],
results.data["0"]["distractor_2"],
results.data["0"]["distractor_3"],
results.data["0"]["correct_answer"],
results.data["0"]["explanation"]];
dataArray = HTMLGunkCleanse(dataArray);
XMLWriter(dataArray[0],
dataArray[1],
dataArray[2],
dataArray[3],
dataArray[4],
dataArray[5],
dataArray[6],
dataArray[7],
dataArray[8]);
}//end of the line for stuff to do with each iteration of data
})
};
function HTMLGunkCleanse(dataArray){
var regex = /<[^>]*>/g;
for (i = 3;i<8;i++){
dataArray[i] = dataArray[i].replace("<p>", "\r\n").replace("</p>", "").trim();
var check = dataArray[i];
dataArray[i] = dataArray[i].replace(regex, "").replace("\\s+", "").trim();
if (check != dataArray[i]){
console.log(check);
console.log(dataArray[i]); // shows any differences that may have occured
}
}
return dataArray
}
function XMLWriter(fileName, qID, nodeID, question, d1, d2, d3, correct, feedback){
setTimeout(function(){console.log("waiting");},1)
//create long ugly string that looks good in xml
var blob = new Blob([doc.toString()], {
type: "text/plain;charset=utf-8"
});
var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.download = "cfal_question_00006_" + fileName + ".dita";
a.href = url;
a.textContent = "Download latest";
a.click();
//if the click() function dosen't work you can try using onclick() fucntion like this
//a.onclick();
document.getElementById('test').appendChild(a);
}
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#csv-file").change(handleFileSelect);
});
</script>
<input type="file" id="csv-file" name="files"/>
<div id="test">
</div>
In preresponse to question yes i realize its ugly. I've taken one javascript class and don't some stuff online so i'm kinda newish. Any advice on why it was working fine and doesn't work now? I am using Google chrome to run it btw.
In your function 'HTMLGunkCleanse', return dataArray doesn't end with a ';' Maybe that's the problem?
The goal is to transform a base64 string into a sendable jpg file, I cant use the html input type file but i have to serve in the same format. I am bit lost with file generation. (I am on a client side mobile app).
This is what i have:
file = "data:image/jpg;base64,#{imageData}"
imageData is the base64 string
There is a way to transform this into a valid file?
Disclaimer: Produces an invalid result (close, but invalid)
I've done the reverse earlier last week - that is, load an image as binary data (to get around the requirement to run file from localhost).
In it, I:
loaded the file
base64 converted it
added a pre-amble to the base64 string
set the constructed string to be the src of an img element
This worked just fine. Upon reading your question, I tried to simply reverse the process. I was however, unsuccessfull somewhere. The data is extracted from the image correctly, then somewhere afterwards (I think in the call to atob that un-encodes it) the data is messed-up.
The saved files are an unexpected size, have an added char before "%PNG" and have some missing data in the middle of the file. I'm rather perplexed at this point, to be honest.
Anyhow, here's the code I've tried:
1. Code to read a file and stuff the data into an element
// fileVar is an object as returned by <input type='file'>
// imgElem is an <img> element - (doesn't need to be added to the DOM)
function loadImgFromFile(fileVar, imgElem)
{
var fileReader = new FileReader();
fileReader.onload = onFileLoaded;
fileReader.readAsBinaryString(fileVar);
function onFileLoaded(fileLoadedEvent)
{
var result,data;
data = fileLoadedEvent.target.result;
result = "data:";
result += fileVar.type;
result += ";base64,";
result += btoa(data);
imgElem.src = result;
}
}
2. Attempt to grab data from an image/canvas and force the download of it using a programmer-supplied filename.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function byId(e){return document.getElementById(e)}
function newEl(tag){return document.createElement(tag)}
window.addEventListener('load', onPageLoaded, false);
function onPageLoaded(evt)
{
var imgElem = byId('srcImg');
imgElem.onload = function(){saveImgAsFile( byId('srcImg'), "myImage.png" );};
// simple result of canvas.toDataURL() called on a 5x5 pixel image of a '+'
imgElem.src = "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHklEQVQIW2NkQID/QCYjiAsmoABFEMRBAThVYmgHAAhoBQWHhfyYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC";
// use the below line instead of the one above, if you wish to assign an actual image file, rather than the result of call to canvas.toDataURL()
// the base64 string allows me to keep it all in the one file, also, to run if opened via a double-click, rather than having to run from localhost
// imgElem.src = "img/1x1.png";
}
function saveImgAsFile(imgElem, fileName)
{
// get a base64 encoded string from an image element
var srcElem = imgElem;
var dstCanvas = newEl('canvas');
dstCanvas.width = srcElem.naturalWidth;
dstCanvas.height = srcElem.naturalHeight;
var ctx = dstCanvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(srcElem,0,0);
var imgSrcStr = dstCanvas.toDataURL();
// extract the image type
var colonPos = imgSrcStr.indexOf(":");
var semiColonPos = imgSrcStr.indexOf(";");
var imgType = imgSrcStr.slice(colonPos+1, semiColonPos);
console.log("image type: " + imgType);
// extract the image data
var commaPos = imgSrcStr.indexOf(',');
var base64ImgString = imgSrcStr.slice(commaPos + 1);
console.log("Data: " + base64ImgString);
// holds the data that is actually written to disk for this image
//** I think the error occurs during this step **//
var unencodedImage = atob(base64ImgString);
var imgFileAsBlob = new Blob( [unencodedImage], {type: imgType} );
var fileNameToUse = fileName;
var downloadLink = newEl('a');
downloadLink.download = fileNameToUse;
downloadLink.innerHTML = "Download File";
if (window.webkitURL != null)
{
// Chrome allows the link to be clicked
// without actually adding it to the DOM.
downloadLink.href = window.webkitURL.createObjectURL(imgFileAsBlob);
}
else
{
// Firefox requires the link to be added to the DOM
// before it can be clicked.
downloadLink.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(imgFileAsBlob);
downloadLink.onclick = destroyClickedElement;
downloadLink.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);
}
downloadLink.click();
}
/*
function saveTextAsFile()
{
var textToWrite = "This is just some random content";
var textFileAsBlob = new Blob([textToWrite], {type:'text/plain'})
var fileNameToSaveAs = "myFile.txt";
var downloadLink = document.createElement("a");
downloadLink.download = fileNameToSaveAs;
downloadLink.innerHTML = "Download File";
if (window.webkitURL != null)
{
// Chrome allows the link to be clicked
// without actually adding it to the DOM.
downloadLink.href = window.webkitURL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
}
else
{
// Firefox requires the link to be added to the DOM
// before it can be clicked.
downloadLink.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
downloadLink.onclick = destroyClickedElement;
downloadLink.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);
}
downloadLink.click();
}
*/
function destroyClickedElement(event)
{
document.body.removeChild(event.target);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<img id='srcImg'/>
</body>
</html>
I want to grab the file uploaded in a <input type='file'> tag.
When I do $('#inputId').val(), it only grabs the name of the file, not the actual file itself.
I'm trying to follow this:
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/the-shortest-image-uploader-ever/
function upload(file) {
// file is from a <input> tag or from Drag'n Drop
// Is the file an image?
if (!file || !file.type.match(/image.*/)) return;
// It is!
// Let's build a FormData object
var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("image", file); // Append the file
fd.append("key", "6528448c258cff474ca9701c5bab6927");
// Get your own key: http://api.imgur.com/
// Create the XHR (Cross-Domain XHR FTW!!!)
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://api.imgur.com/2/upload.json"); // Boooom!
xhr.onload = function() {
// Big win!
// The URL of the image is:
JSON.parse(xhr.responseText).upload.links.imgur_page;
}
// Ok, I don't handle the errors. An exercice for the reader.
// And now, we send the formdata
xhr.send(fd);
}
Use event.target.files for change event to retrieve the File instances.
$('#inputId').change(function(e) {
var files = e.target.files;
for (var i = 0, file; file = files[i]; i++) {
console.log(file);
}
});
Have a look here for more info: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
This solution uses File API which is not supported by all browser - see http://caniuse.com/#feat=fileapi .
This is likely referring to HTML5 files property. See w3 and sample jsfiddle