Base64 conversion

[Florian_Verdon2]

Hi everyone !

I am trying to authenticate a request using Basic Auth.
I then need to base64-encode my logins.
(could encode them manually and then insert but would prefer to keep that logic in the code)

I didn’t found how to achieve this “natively” without rewriting the entire encoding function.
btoa() does not seems to work :confused:

Can anyone help me on this ?

Thanks

[Bill_French]

Florian_Verdonck:

I am trying to authenticate a request using Basic Auth. I then need to base64-encode my logins.

Can’t really say what the issue is without seeing the scripting context. Is this in a Script Block? Scrip automation? Custom App? External script accessing via the Airtable API?

If you want to learn more, you have to share the details.

[Florian_Verdon2]

Thank you for your reply.

I am trying to fetch from a Script Block.

Florian

[Bill_French]

Florian_Verdonck:

I am trying to fetch from a Script Block

Okay - that’s helpful, but not likely enough to comment more than generally. Without seeing exactly what you’re trying to run through a base64 encoding process, we’re still in the dark.

Florian_Verdonck:

btoa() does not seems to work

Given that Script Blocks are everyday javascript, btoa() should work just fine unless there are some strange characters in the string being encoded…

btoa() accepts a “string” where each character represents an 8-bit byte – if you pass a string containing characters that can’t be represented in 8 bits, it will probably break. This isn’t a problem if you’re actually treating the string as a byte array, but if you’re trying to do something else then you’ll have to encode it first.

[Florian_Verdon2]

Actually, btoa() function is not found.

Tried window.btoa() as well with no success.
I don’t really know how this function is supposed to work in the context of Airtable Script Block.

It should probably be something else than window but can’t find what.

[kuovonne · Accepted solution]

Even though I get the squiggly underlines under btoa, the code runs just fine when I use it.

There are enough times when squiggly red underlines appear for working code, that if the logic makes sense to me and the code runs, I ignore the squiggly red underlines.

[Bill_French]

Florian_Verdonck:

Actually, btoa() function is not found.

Hmm… works fine for me:

Script…

output.markdown('## BtoA() Test');

output.markdown('### User/Password');
let pw = "bfg:123456";
output.inspect(pw);

output.markdown('### Base64 of User/Password');
let b64 = btoa(pw);
output.inspect(b64);

[Florian_Verdon2]

Ok thank you, I didn’t try to run it…
I am not used to run the code when editor shows an error :grinning_face_with_sweat:

Thank you !

[kuovonne]

Just a followup note, while btoa() works for me in Scripting app (despite the squiggly red underline), it does not work for me in an automation action script.

[Bill_French]

kuovonne:

it does not work for me in an automation action script.

This is why I was so careful to understand the scripting context. This is a possible out on the script action side.