How do you get a data:text link?

PoIygon

I saw that random purple guy with a white s share a data:text link on advanced way to rickroll people. How do I do that?

CST1229

Like this post? Just take your HTML file, convert it to base64 and append "data:text/html;base64," to the start of it i think. The forum blocks data urls from being clicked i think too.
[offtopic]yess quotation mark bypass[/offtopic]

Chiroyce

Yeah, but it doesn't seem to work, My browser / operating system: Windows 7, Firefox 88.0, No Flash version detected

CST1229

Chiroyce wrote:
Yeah, but it doesn't seem to work,

Found out another reason for why it doesn't work, the forums seems to mess with punctuation, commas and stuff in URLs and turn them into percent codes. Which is not good if you actually want to put a comma into the path of a URL instead of a percent code representing a comma.

Last edited by CST1229 (April 28, 2021 11:57:24)

ninjaMAR

A data url is a file stored in the url
You can do text and images and probobaly more
Example

data:MEDIATYPE,CONTENT

HTML

data:text/html,<h1>Hello</h1>

Image

data:image/png;base64, iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==

Last edited by ninjaMAR (April 29, 2021 12:52:04)

Socialix

OMG! IM MENTIONED IN AT! YAYYYYYY!

anyway, do this

data:MEDIATYPE;base64,DATAHERE

the media type can be text, or if you want it to be html, type in “text/html” there are thousands of other media types, you can find a list of media types here

and then write the normal decoded data

and then use some base64 converter to convert to base64, i personally use this one i found from DDG, but here is some ios shortcut

Ask for Input, no modify needed

Base64 Encode, "encode" with the thing gonna be encoded is "Provided Input" you can choose from magic variables

Ask for Input, set default answer to "Base64 Encoded" you can choose from magic variables, so you can copy the text

and then paste the encoded data to “DATAHERE” afaik

edit: ninja'd due to making the ios shortcut aaaaaaaaa why did i do that

Last edited by Socialix (April 28, 2021 12:46:10)

Chiroyce

Thanks for explaining @ninjaMAR!

Socialix wrote:
and then use some base64 converter to convert to base64

I use the iPadOS shortcuts app

nice to see a fellow iOS Shortcuts developer! how pro are you? im soo pro that i made a kid's screen monitoring system, with commands that can be sent by mail or iMessage.

Last edited by Chiroyce (April 28, 2021 12:48:11)

Socialix

Chiroyce wrote:
Socialix wrote:
and then use some base64 converter to convert to base64
I use the iPadOS shortcuts app

haha i will save the shortcut i made and showed to the broke android users

idevice users are underrated

Chiroyce

Socialix wrote:
haha i will save the shortcut i made and showed to the broke android users
idevice users are underrated

soo true. I've had like 8 years of experience with iOS, 2 years experience with iPadOS, and 3 years experience with macOS. So basically I'm an OG Apple guy.

ninjaMAR

Socialix wrote:
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You don't always need base64

gosoccerboy5

You don't even need base64.

data:text/html,<html><head><title>html page</title></head><body>this is an html page with data:text without base64</body></html>

Socialix

ninjaMAR wrote:
Socialix wrote:
‮snip
You don't always need base64

I know, but it's recommended to use it in data: links for some odd reason.

Maximouse

Socialix wrote:
ninjaMAR wrote:
Socialix wrote:
‮snip
You don't always need base64
I know, but it's recommended to use it in data: links for some odd reason.

Without base64, characters like : and # need to be URL encoded.

Last edited by Maximouse (April 28, 2021 15:53:03)

saleboat1

it works! data:text;base64,aGFoYSBmdW5ueSBkYXRhdGV4dCB1cmwgZ28gYnJycnJycnJycnJycnJycnI=
also st that are here. i want this open.

Last edited by saleboat1 (April 29, 2021 05:07:51)

PoIygon

saleboat1 wrote:
it works! data:text;base64,aGFoYSBmdW5ueSBkYXRhdGV4dCB1cmwgZ28gYnJycnJycnJycnJycnJycnI=
also st that are here. i want this open.

thats true
also i got a image in data url

Last edited by PoIygon (April 29, 2021 05:19:15)

Sheep_maker

data URLs are also very useful for getting special characters by name. I have data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<body contenteditable> bookmarked, so I only have to type “da” and Chrome's omnibox can autocomplete the rest for me. Then I can add something like π

data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<body contenteditable>&pi;

and it'll come up with a page with the π character ready for me to copy

PoIygon

the page is horrible if you convert it into a data html

Socialix

PoIygon wrote:
the page is horrible if you convert it into a data html

It's probably because Scratch doesn't let their main.css file to load in third-party domains (including data: and file://).

mybearworld

PoIygon wrote:
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saleboat1 wrote:
it works! data:text;base64,aGFoYSBmdW5ueSBkYXRhdGV4dCB1cmwgZ28gYnJycnJycnJycnJycnJycnI=
also st that are here. i want this open.
thats true
also i got a image in data url

[url] tags encode text, so you have “data:image/png%3Bbase64%2C”

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