Privébericht met bijlage/upload via API

[aidanheerdegen]

Is het mogelijk om de API te gebruiken om een direct bericht met een bijlage/upload te verzenden?

Dit is mogelijk via de webinterface, maar het is mij niet duidelijk hoe dit met de API te emuleren is.

[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

Discourse API Docs