הודעה פרטית עם קובץ מצורף/העלאה דרך API

[aidanheerdegen]

Is it possible to use the API to send a direct message with an attachment/upload?

This is possible through the web UI, but it isn’t obvious to me how to emulate this with the API.

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi, you need two API requests. One to upload the file, which returns the url, and one to create the post in which you insert the URL.

How to upload a file via API and get it's URL?

Also interested in this question I can’t find a way to upload a file to Topic and Post via the API. Perhaps someone can suggest a method. UPD: I figured it out, the method is described in the documentation and it works. Upload a file using “/uploads.json”, in response we get the Short URL of the uploaded file like “upload://ueNyWDEgHhXIuIdB472fy9T6.txt” We update the post with the second API request, adding a line like this to the very end of post[raw]: [filename.txt|attachment](upload://…

[aidanheerdegen]

@Canapin

Hi, you need two API requests. One to upload the file, which returns the url, and one to create the post in which you insert the URL.

Thanks. When using the GUI the upload has different security depending on the context (topic vs private message), so I’d need to mimic the same settings in the upload API call to have the same outcome.

Looking at the API it isn’t clear to me how to achieve this

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