# How to Display Binary PDF Data in a Web Embedding?

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**Created:** [June 20, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-display-binary-pdf-data-in-a-web-embedding/82625 "2025-06-20T09:57:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-display-binary-pdf-data-in-a-web-embedding/82625/7 "2025-06-22T15:29:48Z")

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I do something similar to Bob.  
I need to interface with an external API that returns binary PDF files.  
Because the Glide API can’t handle these, I use Make to fetch them, then push them in through the Glide API as base64 encoded text, and then display them in a Webview as a dataURI.

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