Saving images as Base64 from PhantomJS

This recipe continues our discussion of rendering web page content by introducing the renderBase64 method from the webpage module in PhantomJS.

Getting ready

To run this recipe, we will need a script that intends to access a web page.

The script in this recipe is available in the downloadable code repository as recipe02.js under chapter07. If we run the provided example script, we must change to the root directory for the book's sample code.

Lastly, the script in this recipe runs against the demo site that is included with the cookbook's sample code repository. To run the demo site, we must have Node.js installed. In a separate terminal, change to the phantomjs-sandbox directory (in the sample code's directory), and start the app with the following command:

node app.js

How to do it…

Consider the following script:

var webpage = require('webpage').create(),
    args    = require('system').args,
    format  = args[1] || 'jpeg';

webpage.viewportSize = { width...