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Rosemol
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Upload image file using fetch in js

Hi All, I'm new to Dropbox API and I'm trying to upload image files from our website to dropbox using api. I'm using FETCH to POST data to dropbox and the file is uploading.However, the image is not...
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Rosemol
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Hi Greg,

after the upload action I could see the data which i'm sending to dropbox in base64 format, but instead of seeing the image I see the data which i send.

I tried different methods and for 1 option I was successful which was sending the file object which I get from <input type="file"> value. I understand that there's no need to convert the file to base64

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you got this working as desired.

Yes, that's correct, there's no need to apply an additional encoding. Dropbox will accept whatever data you upload exactly as you upload it. So, if you want to upload an image that can be viewed later, you should just upload the unmodified raw data.

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    khan_sikki
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    i am getting this as response 

    Error in call to API function "files/upload": HTTP header "Dropbox-API-Arg": could not decode input as JSON
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      Greg-DB
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      6 years ago

      khan_sikki I see you also requested help for this issue in your support ticket and included more information there, so we'll follow up with you there shortly.

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