Send the file of an upload

Example

curl -X PUT "https://api.switchfile.io/v1/uploads/7d1f0f7e-0b55-4a8e-8c5b-9d8e3f1a2b3c/content?expires=1762538401&signature=3f9c2a7d41e8b6c05d1f9e2a7b4c8d3e6f0a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8" \
  --upload-file lecture.mov

import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";

const res = await fetch("https://api.switchfile.io/v1/uploads/7d1f0f7e-0b55-4a8e-8c5b-9d8e3f1a2b3c/content?expires=1762538401&signature=3f9c2a7d41e8b6c05d1f9e2a7b4c8d3e6f0a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8", {
  method: "PUT",
  body: await readFile("lecture.mov"),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}: ${await res.text()}`);
console.log(res.status);

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.switchfile.io/v1/uploads/7d1f0f7e-0b55-4a8e-8c5b-9d8e3f1a2b3c/content?expires=1762538401&signature=3f9c2a7d41e8b6c05d1f9e2a7b4c8d3e6f0a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'PUT',
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => file_get_contents('lecture.mov'),
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

if ($status >= 400) {
    throw new RuntimeException("HTTP $status: $response");
}
echo $status, PHP_EOL;

import requests

res = requests.put(
    "https://api.switchfile.io/v1/uploads/7d1f0f7e-0b55-4a8e-8c5b-9d8e3f1a2b3c/content?expires=1762538401&signature=3f9c2a7d41e8b6c05d1f9e2a7b4c8d3e6f0a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8",
    data=open("lecture.mov", "rb"),
)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.status_code)

Parameters

Request body

Responses

• 204Stored. Use upload_id in POST /v1/convert
• 403The signature is wrong or the URL has expiredEXPIRED

  403 application/problem+jsonCopy

  {
    "type": "https://switchfile.io/docs/api/v1#errors-expired",
    "title": "Expired",
    "status": 403,
    "code": "EXPIRED",
    "detail": "The link has expired."
  }

• 404Does not exist for this accountNOT_FOUND

  404 application/problem+jsonCopy

  {
    "type": "https://switchfile.io/docs/api/v1#errors-not-found",
    "title": "Not found",
    "status": 404,
    "code": "NOT_FOUND",
    "detail": "Upload not found."
  }

• 413The request or the file is too largeFILE_TOO_LARGE

  413 application/problem+jsonCopy

  {
    "type": "https://switchfile.io/docs/api/v1#errors-file-too-large",
    "title": "File too large",
    "status": 413,
    "code": "FILE_TOO_LARGE",
    "detail": "The file is larger than the allowed maximum."
  }

• 422Invalid data. errors names the fieldsINVALID_DATA

  422 application/problem+jsonCopy

  {
    "type": "https://switchfile.io/docs/api/v1#errors-invalid-data",
    "title": "Invalid data",
    "status": 422,
    "code": "INVALID_DATA",
    "detail": "The request contains invalid data.",
    "errors": {
      "to": [
        "Expected string"
      ]
    }
  }

• 429Too many requests or a daily quota is used up. See Retry-AfterRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED

  429 application/problem+jsonCopy

  {
    "type": "https://switchfile.io/docs/api/v1#errors-rate-limit-exceeded",
    "title": "Rate limit exceeded",
    "status": 429,
    "code": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
    "detail": "Too many requests. Try again in 12 seconds."
  }

Error bodies and codes are explained in Errors.