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Dec 18, 2015 09:00 AM
Looking over the API documentation, it appears that attachments require a url
key, so they must already be available on a web server. Is it possible to upload local files to Airtable via the API? I’d like to build my own form that POSTs to Airtable and uploads an image as an attachment, but it doesn’t look like this is currently possible. Am I missing something?
Thanks!
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Mar 20, 2018 05:11 PM
Would also really love to see this…going to explore the Filestack/imgur route, but was not estimating that I’d need to for my current little project. :slightly_smiling_face: Presumably no update on this as of March 2018, correct @Emmett_Nicholas?
Mar 23, 2018 09:29 AM
Hi everyone, would also be very interested of providing an URL to add attachments to a record through the API!
Apr 22, 2018 08:52 AM
It would be awesome to upload attachments via APIs. There are so many use cases for this feature.
Sep 10, 2018 11:08 AM
I’d be really happy to see this as well. Any updates @Emmett_Nicholas?
Oct 04, 2018 05:17 AM
+1 from me too. Disappointed that three years after the initial request uploading attachments using the API is still not available.
Oct 04, 2018 07:21 AM
Cloudinary is an awesome product that could be used for the file upload that then provides a URL to pull into airtable
Oct 15, 2018 11:17 PM
it can technically be done using GraphQL…
Oct 16, 2018 05:37 AM
This is possible using api. Have a look on task create example
{
“fields”: {
“Truck_ID1”: [
“1232321321323123”
],
“Task_Type”: “Repairs (Parts & Labour)”,
“Images”: [
{
“url”: “image path”
},
{
“url”: “image path”
}
],
“Job Type”: [
“Order”
],
“Status”: “Client response?”
}
}
Oct 16, 2018 09:20 AM
@Kapil_dev - the question here is how to get a file directly uploaded into airtable (not just a link to a file hosted somewhere on the web). So, it would require an intermediary solution (like my suggestion of cloudinary) in order to upload the file first, then get the resulting url, then publish that url into airtable. But currently can’t get around that intermediary step.
Oct 30, 2018 09:22 AM
Have you implemented this with cloudinary and it worked? Would like to try this route.