Allowing Users to Paste Images or Files Instead of Uploading?

Questions
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Hi,

Is there a way to let users paste an image or file directly, rather than uploading?

Context: I want to mimic the ChatGPT or Claude experience.

Thanks for any guidance!

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There are plugins that allow you to upload without uploading…what that means is, the user will choose their image, the plugin will make it available for display and usage during the session, without first uploading it to the file uploader. The plugin also has a function to run an action to upload it to the file uploader.

I used this plugin to create a chat feature that allows a user to send images through the chat nearly instantly, and only after the message with the image was sent, do I run the actions to upload it to the file manager.

I forget which plugin it was I used, but look for the one that has the feature of not uploading to file manager on upload of image.

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I like this, but what I’m really looking for is for the user to be able to click “control + v” and paste any image directly into Bubble.

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I saw a tweet by @Kayami recently which showed a plugin allowing you to paste images which gets uploaded to bubble.

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@Kayami any idea on how to solve this? :pray:t3:

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Have you tried this? It costs though.

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No, have you? I’ve just tested it and I think this could work. Thanks!

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@joaquintorroba do you mean something like in this demo?

5 second video in this tweet showing it → x.com

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Yes, looks really nice. Is this a plugin? Do you have the link to the plugin?
Thanks!

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hey @joaquintorroba i dont think we ever published it because we didnt fully test all the edge cases, but i think we use it in 1 or 2 of our own apps so i think its stable.

if you dm me your app id ill authorize it and you can try it out to see if it works for you as well!

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Great, I’ve just sent you a dm through twitter. Thanks in advance!

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@joaquintorroba , there’s a perfect plugin for what you want and it handles it well.
Check it out here Paste files into any input

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I’m using the one @Kayami mentioned and it’s doing the work. Thanks anyway!

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@joaquintorroba You’re welcome