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How to upload an image to strapi

Bassel Kanso on July 20, 2021

Perhaps one of the hardest things to do, and that is to figure out how to upload an image to strapi, and to link it to a specific content type. On...
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zyq-m • • Edited

Thanks Bassel it's really helpful. Just to add a little, for strapi v4 in url you must include /api endpoint, such http://localhost:1337/api/upload. Otherwise it will throw an error.

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Leonardo Fernández • • Edited

Thanks a lot for this article men, this issue almost makes me crazy😅

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Diego Alves •

Hi, do you believe the same process in react native will work?

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Bassel Kanso •

The process concerning Strapi yes, However React Native probably uses a different way to get the files from a mobile phone.

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Sunil Garg •

where strapi saves the photos? to the folder that can be committed to git?

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Bassel Kanso •

Yes Strapi does save photos by default to a folder that can be committed with git, however I recommend you use a cloud storage provider, the same method will work. You just need to setup the storage provider with Strapi

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Amr Viernes • • Edited

Hi Bassel after doing this giving response 400 (Bad Request) opening the network tab and i see no data sent just nulll do you know where the problem may locate

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Mauricio Junqueira •

Hello Amr, I am with the same problem (Bad Request). But if I use just /upload, without the api, I then get an Unauthorized.

Did you solve this?

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Amr Viernes •

Hi Mauricio, yes i solved this problem by using axios like this

axios({
  method: 'post',
  url: '/api/upload',
  data: formData
});
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and don't forget to check upload permission in strapi users panel for public if you want to upload with authenticated users send token in the headers with the post request.

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Bassel Kanso •

Hello yes the new version of Strapi, the V4 version needs to be api/upload
I will try to update the post to follow the new version

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imdevpratik •

Thanks @bassel17 ...! but i want to help in add image with caption is it possible in strapi v4 ?