---
alias: user-guide-automation-converter-stringtobase64
description: "This converter encodes the input string as base64 using UTF-8 bytes"
---

# String to Base64

The **String to Base64** converter receives a string and returns its base64-encoded representation. The encoding uses UTF-8 bytes.

## Settings

This converter has no settings.

## Examples

| Input              | Output                |
| ------------------ | --------------------- |
| `"recipeString"`   | `"cmVjaXBlU3RyaW5n"`  |
| `"hello"`          | `"aGVsbG8="`          |
| `""`               | `""`                  |

Table 1: Examples

![Settings panel for the String to Base64 converter.](./images/converter_string_tobase64_settings.png)

### Invalid Input

This converter fails when the input is `null` or `undefined`. For what happens to the rest of the chain when a converter fails (the error is logged, reported for monitoring, and the next task does not run), see [[user-guide-automation-converters-index]].

| Input       | Result                                       |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `null`      | Fails: the input cannot be encoded.          |
| `undefined` | Fails: the input cannot be encoded.          |

Table 2: Invalid Input