API Post Request

Need help APIs
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Hi everyone,

I would really appreciate help:)

What I am trying to do is this:

  • have my users upload a pdf and safe it to my database (this works)
  • make a API call to a python script that I have running on pythonanywhere where I run code on that pdf and safe the returned value in my bubble database

I am trying to do this via a post request in the API connector, however, I am running into some issues.
I know that my Python script works because if I run the request through my terminal like this curl -X POST -F file=[path_to_file] [link_to_pythonanywhere] I get back what I want.

I am struggling with setting up the POST request though. This is what it looks like right now:

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How can I change my API request so that the correct link to the file from my database is inserted and the JSON from the script is returned?

thanks a lot!

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Did you try adding a parameter and set it to file?

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Do you know how I would then change the value dynamically?

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I’ve never seen it where the actual file URL is passed inside the URL of the POST request. Are you sure you aren’t supposed to pass the file as a parameter with the body type of form-data? You can set the file dynamically that way as well.

Try setting it up so it’s just the URL in your POST line, add a parameter as a type of file, and then upload the file. See if it works that way.

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Thank you I will try doing that. Do you know of any tutorial where I can see how that is done? Thanks