Using the following python:

import base64
import requests

response = requests.get(input_dataa'url'])
str = base64.b64encode(response.content).decode('utf-8')
return str

but I keep getting 

'str' object has no attribute 'copy'

Hi @simpledcp ,

Unfortunately this is not possible with the Code by Zapier step using python. According to this page it doesn’t support any importing and only supports a few libraries.

Another solution would be to use an online API to do this conversion for you. I haven’t been able to find one myself but maybe you succeed. 

Let me know if this helped you!

~Bjorn

Hi @simpledcp - I’d suggest using the following JavaScript code snippet:

const response = await fetch(inputData.url);
const content = await response.buffer();
const data = content.toString("base64");
output =  { data }];

Well, that’s that’s a pretty rock solid reason why I can’t do this in Python :-P

 const response = await fetch(inputData.url);
const content = await response.buffer();
const data = content.toString("base64");
output = t{ data }];

That did the trick! Now I’m just running up against the limitations of the Zapier code function. Most of my images are a wee too big. Thanks!