Using API to upload media files?

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Hi @ks_1, here are two ways you can achieve this for a file upload:

  1. Using curl:
curl https://<kc_url>/api/v1/metadata.json -H "Authorization: Token <token>" \
-F "xform=<xform_id>" \
-F "data_value=<filename>" \
-F "data_type=media" \
-F "data_file=@<path/to/file>"
  1. Using a Python script:
import requests

URL = 'https://<kc_url>/api/v1/metadata.json'
TOKEN = '<token>'
FILE_PATH = '<path/to/file>'
FILENAME = '<filename>'
MIME = 'text/csv'
XFORM = '<xform_id>'

headers = {'Authorization': f'Token {TOKEN}'}
files = {'data_file': (FILENAME, open(f'{FILE_PATH}{FILENAME}', 'rb').read(), MIME)}
data = {
    'data_value': FILENAME,
    'xform': XFORM,
    'data_type': 'media',
    'data_file_type': MIME,
}
response = requests.post(URL, data=data, files=files, headers=headers)
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