# How to get uploaded image url using the Discourse API?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-uploaded-image-url-using-the-discourse-api/37800>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-uploaded-image-url-using-the-discourse-api/37800 "2016-01-12T03:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-uploaded-image-url-using-the-discourse-api/37800/30 "2017-12-07T19:45:53Z")

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That code is seriously too bloated, with a formData structure inside an almost identical data structure.

But more important: there is no non-staff synchronous upload issue any more, the code was refactored last week.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/eb428ef54dcc1d0d74f5d4a0d3fd12f1122dab65#diff-60328924b5c773b42aacabc0b5698af4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/eb428ef54dcc1d0d74f5d4a0d3fd12f1122dab65#diff-60328924b5c773b42aacabc0b5698af4)

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