Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be exporting canvas to image file using blob.js and save it as a png image file using filesaver.js library. All the source code of the examples are given below.

Requirements

The requirements of the application is using two libraries

blob.js

filesaver.js

So you can include the libraries inside your project by a cdn

filesaver.js cdn

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/FileSaver.js/2.0.0/FileSaver.min.js"></script>

Now just make a blob.js file inside your root folder and copy paste the following code

/* Blob.js
 * A Blob, File, FileReader & URL implementation.
 * 2019-04-19
 *
 * By Eli Grey, http://eligrey.com
 * By Jimmy Wärting, https://github.com/jimmywarting
 * License: MIT
 *   See https://github.com/eligrey/Blob.js/blob/master/LICENSE.md
 */

;(function () {
  var global = typeof window === 'object'
      ? window : typeof self === 'object'
      ? self : this

  var BlobBuilder = global.BlobBuilder
    || global.WebKitBlobBuilder
    || global.MSBlobBuilder
    || global.MozBlobBuilder

  global.URL = global.URL || global.webkitURL || function (href, a) {
    a = document.createElement('a')
    a.href = href
    return a
  }

  var origBlob = global.Blob
  var createObjectURL = URL.createObjectURL
  var revokeObjectURL = URL.revokeObjectURL
  var strTag = global.Symbol && global.Symbol.toStringTag
  var blobSupported = false
  var blobSupportsArrayBufferView = false
  var arrayBufferSupported = !!global.ArrayBuffer
  var blobBuilderSupported = BlobBuilder
    && BlobBuilder.prototype.append
    && BlobBuilder.prototype.getBlob

  try {
    // Check if Blob constructor is supported
    blobSupported = new Blob(['ä']).size === 2

    // Check if Blob constructor supports ArrayBufferViews
    // Fails in Safari 6, so we need to map to ArrayBuffers there.
    blobSupportsArrayBufferView = new Blob([new Uint8Array([1, 2])]).size === 2
  } catch (e) {}

  /**
   * Helper function that maps ArrayBufferViews to ArrayBuffers
   * Used by BlobBuilder constructor and old browsers that didn't
   * support it in the Blob constructor.
   */
  function mapArrayBufferViews (ary) {
    return ary.map(function (chunk) {
      if (chunk.buffer instanceof ArrayBuffer) {
        var buf = chunk.buffer

        // if this is a subarray, make a copy so we only
        // include the subarray region from the underlying buffer
        if (chunk.byteLength !== buf.byteLength) {
          var copy = new Uint8Array(chunk.byteLength)
          copy.set(new Uint8Array(buf, chunk.byteOffset, chunk.byteLength))
          buf = copy.buffer
        }

        return buf
      }

      return chunk
    })
  }

  function BlobBuilderConstructor (ary, options) {
    options = options || {}

    var bb = new BlobBuilder()
    mapArrayBufferViews(ary).forEach(function (part) {
      bb.append(part)
    })

    return options.type ? bb.getBlob(options.type) : bb.getBlob()
  }

  function BlobConstructor (ary, options) {
    return new origBlob(mapArrayBufferViews(ary), options || {})
  }

  if (global.Blob) {
    BlobBuilderConstructor.prototype = Blob.prototype
    BlobConstructor.prototype = Blob.prototype
  }



  /********************************************************/
  /*               String Encoder fallback                */
  /********************************************************/
  function stringEncode (string) {
    var pos = 0
    var len = string.length
    var Arr = global.Uint8Array || Array // Use byte array when possible

    var at = 0  // output position
    var tlen = Math.max(32, len + (len >> 1) + 7)  // 1.5x size
    var target = new Arr((tlen >> 3) << 3)  // ... but at 8 byte offset

    while (pos < len) {
      var value = string.charCodeAt(pos++)
      if (value >= 0xd800 && value <= 0xdbff) {
        // high surrogate
        if (pos < len) {
          var extra = string.charCodeAt(pos)
          if ((extra & 0xfc00) === 0xdc00) {
            ++pos
            value = ((value & 0x3ff) << 10) + (extra & 0x3ff) + 0x10000
          }
        }
        if (value >= 0xd800 && value <= 0xdbff) {
          continue  // drop lone surrogate
        }
      }

      // expand the buffer if we couldn't write 4 bytes
      if (at + 4 > target.length) {
        tlen += 8  // minimum extra
        tlen *= (1.0 + (pos / string.length) * 2)  // take 2x the remaining
        tlen = (tlen >> 3) << 3  // 8 byte offset

        var update = new Uint8Array(tlen)
        update.set(target)
        target = update
      }

      if ((value & 0xffffff80) === 0) {  // 1-byte
        target[at++] = value  // ASCII
        continue
      } else if ((value & 0xfffff800) === 0) {  // 2-byte
        target[at++] = ((value >> 6) & 0x1f) | 0xc0
      } else if ((value & 0xffff0000) === 0) {  // 3-byte
        target[at++] = ((value >> 12) & 0x0f) | 0xe0
        target[at++] = ((value >> 6) & 0x3f) | 0x80
      } else if ((value & 0xffe00000) === 0) {  // 4-byte
        target[at++] = ((value >> 18) & 0x07) | 0xf0
        target[at++] = ((value >> 12) & 0x3f) | 0x80
        target[at++] = ((value >> 6) & 0x3f) | 0x80
      } else {
        // FIXME: do we care
        continue
      }

      target[at++] = (value & 0x3f) | 0x80
    }

    return target.slice(0, at)
  }

  /********************************************************/
  /*               String Decoder fallback                */
  /********************************************************/
  function stringDecode (buf) {
    var end = buf.length
    var res = []

    var i = 0
    while (i < end) {
      var firstByte = buf[i]
      var codePoint = null
      var bytesPerSequence = (firstByte > 0xEF) ? 4
        : (firstByte > 0xDF) ? 3
          : (firstByte > 0xBF) ? 2
            : 1

      if (i + bytesPerSequence <= end) {
        var secondByte, thirdByte, fourthByte, tempCodePoint

        switch (bytesPerSequence) {
          case 1:
            if (firstByte < 0x80) {
              codePoint = firstByte
            }
            break
          case 2:
            secondByte = buf[i + 1]
            if ((secondByte & 0xC0) === 0x80) {
              tempCodePoint = (firstByte & 0x1F) << 0x6 | (secondByte & 0x3F)
              if (tempCodePoint > 0x7F) {
                codePoint = tempCodePoint
              }
            }
            break
          case 3:
            secondByte = buf[i + 1]
            thirdByte = buf[i + 2]
            if ((secondByte & 0xC0) === 0x80 && (thirdByte & 0xC0) === 0x80) {
              tempCodePoint = (firstByte & 0xF) << 0xC | (secondByte & 0x3F) << 0x6 | (thirdByte & 0x3F)
              if (tempCodePoint > 0x7FF && (tempCodePoint < 0xD800 || tempCodePoint > 0xDFFF)) {
                codePoint = tempCodePoint
              }
            }
            break
          case 4:
            secondByte = buf[i + 1]
            thirdByte = buf[i + 2]
            fourthByte = buf[i + 3]
            if ((secondByte & 0xC0) === 0x80 && (thirdByte & 0xC0) === 0x80 && (fourthByte & 0xC0) === 0x80) {
              tempCodePoint = (firstByte & 0xF) << 0x12 | (secondByte & 0x3F) << 0xC | (thirdByte & 0x3F) << 0x6 | (fourthByte & 0x3F)
              if (tempCodePoint > 0xFFFF && tempCodePoint < 0x110000) {
                codePoint = tempCodePoint
              }
            }
        }
      }

      if (codePoint === null) {
        // we did not generate a valid codePoint so insert a
        // replacement char (U+FFFD) and advance only 1 byte
        codePoint = 0xFFFD
        bytesPerSequence = 1
      } else if (codePoint > 0xFFFF) {
        // encode to utf16 (surrogate pair dance)
        codePoint -= 0x10000
        res.push(codePoint >>> 10 & 0x3FF | 0xD800)
        codePoint = 0xDC00 | codePoint & 0x3FF
      }

      res.push(codePoint)
      i += bytesPerSequence
    }

    var len = res.length
    var str = ''
    var i = 0

    while (i < len) {
      str += String.fromCharCode.apply(String, res.slice(i, i += 0x1000))
    }

    return str
  }

  // string -> buffer
  var textEncode = typeof TextEncoder === 'function'
    ? TextEncoder.prototype.encode.bind(new TextEncoder())
    : stringEncode

  // buffer -> string
  var textDecode = typeof TextDecoder === 'function'
    ? TextDecoder.prototype.decode.bind(new TextDecoder())
    : stringDecode

  function FakeBlobBuilder () {
    function isDataView (obj) {
      return obj && DataView.prototype.isPrototypeOf(obj)
    }
    function bufferClone (buf) {
      var view = new Array(buf.byteLength)
      var array = new Uint8Array(buf)
      var i = view.length
      while (i--) {
        view[i] = array[i]
      }
      return view
    }
    function array2base64 (input) {
      var byteToCharMap = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/='

      var output = []

      for (var i = 0; i < input.length; i += 3) {
        var byte1 = input[i]
        var haveByte2 = i + 1 < input.length
        var byte2 = haveByte2 ? input[i + 1] : 0
        var haveByte3 = i + 2 < input.length
        var byte3 = haveByte3 ? input[i + 2] : 0

        var outByte1 = byte1 >> 2
        var outByte2 = ((byte1 & 0x03) << 4) | (byte2 >> 4)
        var outByte3 = ((byte2 & 0x0F) << 2) | (byte3 >> 6)
        var outByte4 = byte3 & 0x3F

        if (!haveByte3) {
          outByte4 = 64

          if (!haveByte2) {
            outByte3 = 64
          }
        }

        output.push(
          byteToCharMap[outByte1], byteToCharMap[outByte2],
          byteToCharMap[outByte3], byteToCharMap[outByte4]
        )
      }

      return output.join('')
    }

    var create = Object.create || function (a) {
      function c () {}
      c.prototype = a
      return new c()
    }

    if (arrayBufferSupported) {
      var viewClasses = [
        '[object Int8Array]',
        '[object Uint8Array]',
        '[object Uint8ClampedArray]',
        '[object Int16Array]',
        '[object Uint16Array]',
        '[object Int32Array]',
        '[object Uint32Array]',
        '[object Float32Array]',
        '[object Float64Array]'
      ]

      var isArrayBufferView = ArrayBuffer.isView || function (obj) {
        return obj && viewClasses.indexOf(Object.prototype.toString.call(obj)) > -1
      }
    }

    function concatTypedarrays (chunks) {
      var size = 0
      var i = chunks.length
      while (i--) { size += chunks[i].length }
      var b = new Uint8Array(size)
      var offset = 0
      for (i = 0, l = chunks.length; i < l; i++) {
        var chunk = chunks[i]
        b.set(chunk, offset)
        offset += chunk.byteLength || chunk.length
      }

      return b
    }

    /********************************************************/
    /*                   Blob constructor                   */
    /********************************************************/
    function Blob (chunks, opts) {
      chunks = chunks || []
      opts = opts == null ? {} : opts
      for (var i = 0, len = chunks.length; i < len; i++) {
        var chunk = chunks[i]
        if (chunk instanceof Blob) {
          chunks[i] = chunk._buffer
        } else if (typeof chunk === 'string') {
          chunks[i] = textEncode(chunk)
        } else if (arrayBufferSupported && (ArrayBuffer.prototype.isPrototypeOf(chunk) || isArrayBufferView(chunk))) {
          chunks[i] = bufferClone(chunk)
        } else if (arrayBufferSupported && isDataView(chunk)) {
          chunks[i] = bufferClone(chunk.buffer)
        } else {
          chunks[i] = textEncode(String(chunk))
        }
      }

      this._buffer = global.Uint8Array
        ? concatTypedarrays(chunks)
        : [].concat.apply([], chunks)
      this.size = this._buffer.length

      this.type = opts.type || ''
      if (/[^\u0020-\u007E]/.test(this.type)) {
        this.type = ''
      } else {
        this.type = this.type.toLowerCase()
      }
    }

    Blob.prototype.arrayBuffer = function () {
      return Promise.resolve(this._buffer)
    }

    Blob.prototype.text = function () {
      return Promise.resolve(textDecode(this._buffer))
    }

    Blob.prototype.slice = function (start, end, type) {
      var slice = this._buffer.slice(start || 0, end || this._buffer.length)
      return new Blob([slice], {type: type})
    }

    Blob.prototype.toString = function () {
      return '[object Blob]'
    }

    /********************************************************/
    /*                   File constructor                   */
    /********************************************************/
    function File (chunks, name, opts) {
      opts = opts || {}
      var a = Blob.call(this, chunks, opts) || this
      a.name = name.replace(/\//g, ':')
      a.lastModifiedDate = opts.lastModified ? new Date(opts.lastModified) : new Date()
      a.lastModified = +a.lastModifiedDate

      return a
    }

    File.prototype = create(Blob.prototype)
    File.prototype.constructor = File

    if (Object.setPrototypeOf) {
      Object.setPrototypeOf(File, Blob)
    } else {
      try { File.__proto__ = Blob } catch (e) {}
    }

    File.prototype.toString = function () {
      return '[object File]'
    }

    /********************************************************/
    /*                FileReader constructor                */
    /********************************************************/
    function FileReader () {
        if (!(this instanceof FileReader)) {
        throw new TypeError("Failed to construct 'FileReader': Please use the 'new' operator, this DOM object constructor cannot be called as a function.")
      }

        var delegate = document.createDocumentFragment()
        this.addEventListener = delegate.addEventListener
        this.dispatchEvent = function (evt) {
            var local = this['on' + evt.type]
            if (typeof local === 'function') local(evt)
            delegate.dispatchEvent(evt)
        }
        this.removeEventListener = delegate.removeEventListener
    }

    function _read (fr, blob, kind) {
        if (!(blob instanceof Blob)) {
        throw new TypeError("Failed to execute '" + kind + "' on 'FileReader': parameter 1 is not of type 'Blob'.")
      }

        fr.result = ''

        setTimeout(function () {
            this.readyState = FileReader.LOADING
            fr.dispatchEvent(new Event('load'))
            fr.dispatchEvent(new Event('loadend'))
        })
    }

    FileReader.EMPTY = 0
    FileReader.LOADING = 1
    FileReader.DONE = 2
    FileReader.prototype.error = null
    FileReader.prototype.onabort = null
    FileReader.prototype.onerror = null
    FileReader.prototype.onload = null
    FileReader.prototype.onloadend = null
    FileReader.prototype.onloadstart = null
    FileReader.prototype.onprogress = null

    FileReader.prototype.readAsDataURL = function (blob) {
        _read(this, blob, 'readAsDataURL')
        this.result = 'data:' + blob.type + ';base64,' + array2base64(blob._buffer)
    }

    FileReader.prototype.readAsText = function (blob) {
        _read(this, blob, 'readAsText')
        this.result = textDecode(blob._buffer)
    }

    FileReader.prototype.readAsArrayBuffer = function (blob) {
      _read(this, blob, 'readAsText')
       // return ArrayBuffer when possible
      this.result = (blob._buffer.buffer || blob._buffer).slice()
    }

    FileReader.prototype.abort = function () {}

    /********************************************************/
    /*                         URL                          */
    /********************************************************/
    URL.createObjectURL = function (blob) {
      return blob instanceof Blob
        ? 'data:' + blob.type + ';base64,' + array2base64(blob._buffer)
        : createObjectURL.call(URL, blob)
    }

    URL.revokeObjectURL = function (url) {
      revokeObjectURL && revokeObjectURL.call(URL, url)
    }

    /********************************************************/
    /*                         XHR                          */
    /********************************************************/
    var _send = global.XMLHttpRequest && global.XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send
    if (_send) {
      XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send = function (data) {
        if (data instanceof Blob) {
          this.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', data.type)
          _send.call(this, textDecode(data._buffer))
        } else {
          _send.call(this, data)
        }
      }
    }

    global.FileReader = FileReader
    global.File = File
    global.Blob = Blob
  }

  function fixFileAndXHR () {
    var isIE = !!global.ActiveXObject || (
      '-ms-scroll-limit' in document.documentElement.style &&
      '-ms-ime-align' in document.documentElement.style
    )

    // Monkey patched
    // IE don't set Content-Type header on XHR whose body is a typed Blob
    // https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/6047383
    var _send = global.XMLHttpRequest && global.XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send
    if (isIE && _send) {
      XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send = function (data) {
        if (data instanceof Blob) {
          this.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', data.type)
          _send.call(this, data)
        } else {
          _send.call(this, data)
        }
      }
    }

    try {
      new File([], '')
    } catch (e) {
      try {
        var klass = new Function('class File extends Blob {' +
          'constructor(chunks, name, opts) {' +
            'opts = opts || {};' +
            'super(chunks, opts || {});' +
            'this.name = name.replace(/\//g, ":");' +
            'this.lastModifiedDate = opts.lastModified ? new Date(opts.lastModified) : new Date();' +
            'this.lastModified = +this.lastModifiedDate;' +
          '}};' +
          'return new File([], ""), File'
        )()
        global.File = klass
      } catch (e) {
        var klass = function (b, d, c) {
          var blob = new Blob(b, c)
          var t = c && void 0 !== c.lastModified ? new Date(c.lastModified) : new Date()

          blob.name = d.replace(/\//g, ':')
          blob.lastModifiedDate = t
          blob.lastModified = +t
          blob.toString = function () {
            return '[object File]'
          }

          if (strTag) {
            blob[strTag] = 'File'
          }

          return blob
        }
        global.File = klass
      }
    }
  }

  if (blobSupported) {
    fixFileAndXHR()
    global.Blob = blobSupportsArrayBufferView ? global.Blob : BlobConstructor
  } else if (blobBuilderSupported) {
    fixFileAndXHR()
    global.Blob = BlobBuilderConstructor
  } else {
    FakeBlobBuilder()
  }

  if (strTag) {
    File.prototype[strTag] = 'File'
    Blob.prototype[strTag] = 'Blob'
    FileReader.prototype[strTag] = 'FileReader'
  }

  var blob = global.Blob.prototype
  var stream

  function promisify(obj) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      obj.onload =
      obj.onerror = function(evt) {
        obj.onload =
        obj.onerror = null

        evt.type === 'load'
          ? resolve(obj.result || obj)
          : reject(new Error('Failed to read the blob/file'))
      }
    })
  }


  try {
    new ReadableStream({ type: 'bytes' })
    stream = function stream() {
      var position = 0
      var blob = this

      return new ReadableStream({
        type: 'bytes',
        autoAllocateChunkSize: 524288,

        pull: function (controller) {
          var v = controller.byobRequest.view
          var chunk = blob.slice(position, position + v.byteLength)
          return chunk.arrayBuffer()
          .then(function (buffer) {
            var uint8array = new Uint8Array(buffer)
            var bytesRead = uint8array.byteLength

            position += bytesRead
            v.set(uint8array)
              controller.byobRequest.respond(bytesRead)

            if(position >= blob.size)
              controller.close()
          })
        }
      })
    }
  } catch (e) {
    try {
      new ReadableStream({})
      stream = function stream(blob){
        var position = 0
        var blob = this

        return new ReadableStream({
          pull: function (controller) {
            var chunk = blob.slice(position, position + 524288)

            return chunk.arrayBuffer().then(function (buffer) {
              position += buffer.byteLength
              var uint8array = new Uint8Array(buffer)
              controller.enqueue(uint8array)

              if (position == blob.size)
                controller.close()
            })
          }
        })
      }
    } catch (e) {
      try {
        new Response('').body.getReader().read()
        stream = function stream() {
          return (new Response(this)).body
        }
      } catch (e) {
        stream = function stream() {
          throw new Error('Include https://github.com/MattiasBuelens/web-streams-polyfill')
        }
      }
    }
  }


  if (!blob.arrayBuffer) {
    blob.arrayBuffer = function arrayBuffer() {
      var fr = new FileReader()
      fr.readAsArrayBuffer(this)
      return promisify(fr)
    }
  }

  if (!blob.text) {
    blob.text = function text() {
      var fr = new FileReader()
      fr.readAsText(this)
      return promisify(fr)
    }
  }

  if (!blob.stream) {
    blob.stream = stream
  }
})()

So now make a index.html file and copy paste the following code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Exporting Canvas to Image in Javascript</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    </head>
    <body>
    <canvas id="canvas" width="980" height="320" style="border:1px solid #000;">
      
    </canvas>
    </body>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/FileSaver.js/2.0.0/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
    <script src="blob.js"></script>
    <script>
      var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
      
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.font = "30px Arial";
ctx.fillText("Hello World", 10, 50);

canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
    saveAs(blob, "prettyimage.png");
});
    </script>
</html>

So you can see inside this block of code we are targeting the canvas by their id and adding text to the canvas. Here we are using the font arial and also we are writing hello world at x coordinate 10 and y coordinate 50 respectively. And lastly we are using the toBlob method to convert the canvas to blob object. And then we are converting the blob object to image file. Here we are using the filesaver.js library to actually convert the blob to image and download it as a png file.

Adding Image in Canvas

So in this example we will be adding image to canvas and then exporting to image

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Exporting Canvas to Image in Javascript</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    </head>
    <body>
      <img id="img" width="220" height="277" src="image.png" alt="The Scream">

    <canvas id="canvas" width="980" height="320" style="border:1px solid #000;">
      
    </canvas>
    </body>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/FileSaver.js/2.0.0/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
    <script src="blob.js"></script>
    <script>
      var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
      
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.font = "30px Arial";
ctx.fillText("Hello World", 10, 50);
var img = document.getElementById("img");
  ctx.drawImage(img, 10, 10);

canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
    saveAs(blob, "prettyimage.png");
});
    </script>
</html>

So in this block of code we are using drawImage method to draw the image on the canvas.