About Base64 Encode

What Is Base64?

Base64 is a way of representing binary data (or any text, including non-ASCII characters) as a string of printable ASCII characters. It's commonly used to embed data in places that only support text, such as email attachments, data URLs in CSS/HTML, JSON payloads, and authentication headers - it does not encrypt or compress data, it just re-encodes it.

About This Tool

base64encode.cc has offered a free, no-signup Base64 encoder since 2010. Enter or paste text (or upload a file) and it's encoded immediately in your browser - nothing is uploaded to a server. For decoding, use our sibling site base64decode.cc.

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