Returns the contents of the blob as a String.

<br />

| Usage | Returns |
|---|---|
| `Blob.string(*encoding*)` | String |

| Argument | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|
| this: `blob` | Blob |   |
| `encoding` | String, default: null | The character set encoding to use when decoding the blob. Options include, but are not limited to: <br /> - \`US-ASCII\` - \`UTF-8\` - \`UTF-16\` |

## Examples

### Code Editor (JavaScript)

```javascript
// Parse a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) entry from Google Cloud
// Storage (GCS). This is a non-traditional use of ee.Blob.
var url = 'gs://ee-docs-demos/vector/geojson/point.json';
var blob = ee.Blob(url);
var entry = ee.Dictionary(blob.string().decodeJSON());
print(entry);  // Point (1.00, 2.00)...
print(entry.get('a_field'));  // "a demo field"
```
Python setup

See the [Python Environment](https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/guides/python_install) page for information on the Python API and using
`geemap` for interactive development.

```python
import ee
import geemap.core as geemap
```

### Colab (Python)

```python
# Parse a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) entry from Google Cloud
# Storage (GCS). This is a non-traditional use of ee.Blob.
url = 'gs://ee-docs-demos/vector/geojson/point.json'
blob = ee.Blob(url)
entry = ee.Dictionary(blob.string().decodeJSON())
display(entry)  # Point (1.00, 2.00)...
display(entry.get('a_field'))  # "a demo field"
```