Rocket.chat: File Upload API

Created on 14 Apr 2016 · 7Comments · Source: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Your Rocket.Chat version: 0.26.0

It would be great to be able to upload files via the rest API or directly via the webhooks.

In the end what i would like to be able to do is to use Webhooks to push an image and then push a message that uses that image inside of the message body via the attachment image_url.

So either a way that you can have webhooks that accept certain mime_types and a binary payload or an extension to the RestAPI to be able to upload images and then to get back in the response the url pointing to the location of that Url.

If anyone could point me in the direction of where the upload is handled now, i could try to extend the rest api myself :)

Thanks

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The issue is not reproduced for .jpeg.
There is a workaround for .png: specify Content-Type: image/png

curl -v "https://localhost:3000/api/v1/rooms.upload/GENERAL" \
    -F "[email protected];type=image/png" \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: token" \
    -H "X-User-Id: userId"

annstriganova on 25 Apr 2018

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Hi, I'm also trying to implement such feature too but with no luck. Can anyone give me some direction on how you could send FormData properly to the server? All I could get was an empty object, and no matter how hard I tried, It just couldn't go through.

According to my research online, it seems that we needed to have some sort of middleware on parsing the FormData object, but I really don't have any idea on how to do it.

Thanks.

littlep13 on 23 May 2016

Depends on #5650

graywolf336 on 18 Jan 2017

Thank you for your suggestion. This feature is not on our short-term roadmap so we will revisit once other priorities have been addressed.

louisemessage on 13 Mar 2018

Actually this feature has been added so should have been closed as "added": https://rocket.chat/docs/developer-guides/rest-api/rooms/upload/

graywolf336 on 13 Mar 2018

Thank you @graywolf336

louisemessage on 13 Mar 2018

@graywolf336, it seems like it's impossible to preview images sent using this method:

curl -v "https://localhost:3000/api/v1/rooms.upload/GENERAL" \
    -F [email protected] \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: token" \
    -H "X-User-Id: userId"

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In addition, the .bin extention is added to the attached image name with attempt to download it.
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Are there any ways to configure image preview and disable suffix for downloads?

annstriganova on 20 Apr 2018

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The issue is not reproduced for .jpeg.
There is a workaround for .png: specify Content-Type: image/png

curl -v "https://localhost:3000/api/v1/rooms.upload/GENERAL" \
    -F "[email protected];type=image/png" \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: token" \
    -H "X-User-Id: userId"

annstriganova on 25 Apr 2018

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