Obtaining variant id on storefront api

Retired Boards Appdev Custom Storefronts
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Hi,

Wondering how the variant id of the form mentioned in the FAQ can be obtained via the Storefront API.
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/variants/find-variant-id

→ 

36485954240671

By the looks of it I am getting something of the form

Z2lkOi8vc2hvcGlmeS9Qcm9kdWN0VmFyaWFudC8zNzk4NTc2MjgzNjY2Mw==

Wondering

1. Is there a way to translate between the 2.

OR

2. Obtain the variant id as mentioned on the FAQ via the Storefront API(I am using the Buy IOS SDK).

thanks

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Base64 decode or encode.

Decoding Z2lkOi8vc2hvcGlmeS9Qcm9kdWN0VmFyaWFudC8zNzk4NTc2MjgzNjY2Mw== will give you gid://shopify/ProductVariant/37985762836663