Send Profile Photo in base64 Format

Question

I have created API to expose the User Details to an external system in which I am sending all the details regarding users like Name, Email, Language etc. Now I want to send the Profile Photo also, I know we can query and get SmallPhotoUrl and FullPhotoUrl but I don't want URL. I want the actual image in Base64 format.

Any Ideas for this?

Answer 1

Here's an easy 4 step snippet to get a profile photo as a base64 image:

// 1. Query for user info 
User u = [Select SmallPhotoUrl, FullPhotoUrl From User where id = :Userinfo.getUserid()];

// 2. "Navigate" to the page with the image 
PageReference ref = new PageReference(u.FullPhotoUrl); 

// 3. Get the content of that page (the image) as a blob
Blob b = ref.getContent();

// 4. Convert it to base64   
String base64 = EncodingUtil.base64Encode(b); 

System.debug(base64);

Currently working on something very close to this, will update this post with any findings.