I’m trying to upload an avatar image with the API as follows. I’m getting back a 500 error and I don’t see anything in the Error Logs on the server, via the Admin user. I’ve attached a picture with the data from a Postman POST. Of note is that I had this working at one time but then something cha…

So in order to change the avatar via the api you will need to make 2 api requests. POST {{base_url}}/uploads.json form-data: api_key: {{api_key}} api_username: {{api_username}} type: avatar user_id: 1 files[]: file The problem I found is that this just returns { "success": "OK" } and doe…

Yep, that’s what I found. I can’t figure out how to get the upload_id. Anybody know how to do that? Like I said, this was working before the Discourse and Docker were updated.

How would I find the changelog around the upload API? This worked before I did an update of Discourse. The update was large, as it was about a year old. Previously I did it this way: POST to {base_url}/users/{username}/preferences/user_image?api_key={key}&api_username={username} followed by PO…

Is that available via API web calls? There is supposed to be a synchronous option with uploads API as well and I can’t get that to work either. The synchronous option was supposed to return the upload_id. At least that is what I gathered from other posts here.

Okay I just verified that I got this to work. You just need to add the synchronous: true value to get the id. [image] now that we have the id: 17 we can then make one more request: [image]

Thanks!! I will try it tonight, when I get home. I noticed in your screenshot, that you have something in “Pre-request Script.” What is in there? Your headers also should indicate multi-part, correct?

I don’t have anything in my headers. My “Pre-request script” isn’t being used in these calls, but I use it to generate a random string with {{str}}: postman.setEnvironmentVariable("str", Math.random().toString(36).slice(1, 16).replace(/\W/g, ''));

synchronous upload is only available for staff users. Non-staff users have to use the message bus method.

I’m guessing the message bus method is not available via the API calls?

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riking (Kane York) January 17, 2017, 10:20am 5

You need to connect to the message-bus and listen on /uploads - BEFORE sending the upload - just in case the resize operation takes a long time.

I think you also need to send your message bus client_id with the upload, too.

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