How do I convert image to base64 from a URL?

How do I do X?
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This question was asked on Discord by a user Duane, following is the use-case:

Save the image from a URL to the database as a base64 string.

To save an image into base64, we could use the REST GET on the image URL.

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Here’s what the workflow should look like: We’d have to write a JS function to pass the image URL as param to the GET API and then save it to the database.