What Is Blob Protocol

Blob URL/Object URL is a pseudo protocol to allow Blob and File objects to be used as URL source for things like images, download links for binary data and so forth. For example, you can not hand an Image object raw byte-data as it would not know what to do with it.

What is Blob used for?

BLOB stands for Binary Large Object. It is defined as the chunk of binary data being stored as a single entity in a database system. BLOBs are used primarily to hold multimedia objects like images, videos, and sound, though they can also be used to store programs.

What does Blob mean in URL?

Web Browsers implement a Blob object, which is responsible for holding data. Blob means “Binary Large Object” and it’s an opaque representation of a chunk of bytes. Blobs are used for many things. They can be created from content from the network.