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Image URL to Base64 String in Clojure
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imgUrlToBase64Str.clj
;; REPL ONLY
;; Require clj-http https://github.com/dakrone/clj-http/
(require '[clj-http.client :as client])
;; Import Apache Common's Base64 encoder/decoder
(import (org.apache.commons.codec.binary Base64))
(def test-file
;Image Credit Metropolitan Museum of Art
(client/get "http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DP241865.jpg" {:as :byte-array}))
(def imgBase64Str
(String. (Base64/encodeBase64 (:body test-file))))
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As of Java 8 just use java.util.Base64.

(.encodeToString (Base64/getEncoder) (:body test-file))

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