Hello, We want to to upload files privately on backend: we tried the existing post suggestions and plugins in vain. Why do we want to do it on backend? Because the privacy requires the database object to exist before the file is uploaded. It requires us to design an app that will loop over a form…

The double URL encoding issue usually means the file uploader action is double-encoding the result. try using the custom API approach directly instead of relying on bubble’s backend file upload—set privacy rules on the file object itself before you attach the URL to it.

Uploading files privately on backend?

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sam25 January 20, 2026, 5:54am 2

See if this helps: Easy file upload to Bubble using API fileupload

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Uploading files privately on backend?

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