Return content of image as base64-encoded png

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'watir-get-image-content'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install watir-get-image-content

Usage

require 'watir'
require 'watir-get-image-content'
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto 'http://for_example.com/page_with_images'

browser.image(:index, 1).to_png_base64        
browser.image(:alt, 'Alt text').to_png_base64
browser.image(:index, 1).to_jpg_base64
browser.image(:alt, 'Alt text').to_jpg_base64

File.write('png.png', browser.image(:index, 1).to_png)
File.write('jpg.jpg', browser.image(:index, 1).to_jpg)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request