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miran80
miran80

Reputation: 1095

Get Blob object back from blob URL created with URL.createObjectURL

Every question I found told me that the only way to get back the object is to fetch it with an ajax request using the blob:https://www.example.com/0ea6c8a8-732f-42c7-9530-4805c4e785f5 as the destination url. Are blobs not saved in my browsers memory and should therefore be immediately accessible? The way I understand it, it has nothing to do with the remote server/website. Some JS file created the blob object, generated the blob URL and saved it in memory.

I tried using let blob = await fetch(url).then(r => r.blob()); on several websites, always running in cors limitations. Perhaps only the script that created it (different domain) is allowed to access it within its context, which is very unfortunate considering the blob content is literally saved in my browser's memory.

I know other methods of accessing the resource the blob points to or contains by observing network requests. That is not what I am asking here. I wish to understand, how to unpack the blob URL to access Blob object inside browser console to see how the information was saved in the first place. When it comes to videos, Blob simply can't contain the actual video, because of size and bandwidth constrains, so what does it contain then? Manifest file itself?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6757

Answers (1)

Kaiido
Kaiido

Reputation: 136698

See this answer of mine for a way to retrieve the Blob from a blob: URI (you need to run the script there before the Blob is created by the page). Fetching only creates a copy.

The blob: URL is linked to the remote server in that it shares the same origin. So yes, the Blob (binary data) is on your computer, but the URL is only accessible to scripts running from the same origin than the one it was generated from.

And yes, the Blob does contain all the video data, but the string you have is a blob: URL, which is only a pointer to that Blob, itself stored in the browser's memory.

Upvotes: 4

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