This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2022.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The TextEncoderStream() constructor creates a new TextEncoderStream object which is used to convert a stream of strings into bytes using UTF-8 encoding.
new TextEncoderStream()
None.
In this example a TextEncoderStream is created and used to upload a stream of text.
const body = textStream.pipeThrough(new TextEncoderStream());
fetch("/dest", {
method: "POST",
body,
headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" },
});
| Specification |
|---|
| Encoding> # ref-for-dom-textencoderstream①> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
TextEncoderStream |
71 | 79 | 105 | 58 | 14.1 | 71 | 105 | 50 | 14.5 | 10.0 | 71 | 14.5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoderStream/TextEncoderStream