Good afternoon, I am relatively new to APIs and Postman and whilst I have been able to nut out most things, there is something I cannot quite understand. Take the CURL command below: curl -X POST https://example.com/site/products \ -u consumer_key:consumer_secret \ -H "Content-Type: appli…

Hi there, not sure if this is what you need, but you can select a File as the attribute type in the body. [Screen Shot 2020-08-24 at 12.51.09] Also, its is good form to use a descriptive subject… something like ‘How to upload images’ or something like that will help others with the same issue as we…

Hi MrRoyce101, Thankyou for answering my post. I suppose I could have worded it differently, but it was more of a parsing question than about the image per se - I’ll be more aware of this next time. I need to keep the command “self-contained” so the option of having an external file from Postman …

Hi Allen, Thanks for that suggestion. I could encode files and send them although with the minimal data being transferred to the host, I am hoping to stick to having it “self contained” in a single command. I’l work with this option too though. :slight_smile: Greg

Could you elaborate more on what exactly you want? You want to use a file, but also have it self-contained? I’m happy to help any way I can, I just want to make sure I understand the ask.

Hi Allen, Thanks for following up. When I say self contained, I meant having a single command for the CURL command - so all the data is is there - not having to refer to an external file to refer-to/attach. The reason I sent my query by this forum was to get the CURL syntax correct in Postman (wh…

Thanks a lot for the information.

it’s correct, thanks :confetti_ball:

How to upload images to a POST request

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allenheltondev (Allen Helton) August 25, 2020, 11:31am 4

You could encode the file to base64 and send it in the curl command that way.

https://base64.guru/converter/encode/file

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