Sometimes you want to provide a small data file for example purposes, but uploading it somewhere is a hassle. One way around this is to use the data URI protocol defined in RFC 2397. I have written a quick python script that converts a short file into data URI. You can download the program from this self built link.

#!/usr/bin/python

import base64
import mimetypes
import os
import sys

def main():
  if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.stdout.write('usage %s \n' % sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(os.EX_USAGE)
  with open(sys.argv[1]) as input_handle:
    data = input_handle.read()
    type = mimetypes.guess_type(sys.argv[1])[0]
    encoded = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(data)
    print 'data:%s;charset=utf-8;base64,%s' % (type, encoded)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()