I'm trying to get the generated image's source automatically and use it elsewhere in my perchance generator but I can't seem to find a good method to do this. I know the resulting image that I want the source from has the id resultImgE1, I know the id of its container, and I know its in an iframe, like the rest of my html code. I get a lot of errors when I try ChatGPT's methods, even if I tweak them. Let me know if anyone has tried this, or if there's a post about this already on here.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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After a long while of troubleshooting and trying to understand how the generation system works I've come to the conclusion that it is currently not possible to do what I set out to do. I would have to be able to request the image with a post request but I can't due to security stuff, or I would have to read the url of the image on the website which doesn't work because trying to access a cross-origin frame is bad ig. (Just saw there was another post addressing this).
I think these examples are what you're looking for?
- https://perchance.org/text-to-image-canvas-simple-example#edit
- https://perchance.org/text-to-image-plugin-programmatic-example#edit
Also, the iframe has a property iframe.textToImagePluginOutput which is added after the generation is finished, and you can use that to access the image either as a HTML5 canvas or as a Data URL:
iframe.textToImagePluginOutput.canvas
iframe.textToImagePluginOutput.dataUrl
Thank you so much, this helps a lot!