Uploading Media through API

Developer Experience
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Does XIBO API provides the function to add a media file [video, image etc]

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Hi

I think you could start here :slight_smile:

http://xibo.org.uk/manual/en/api_oauth.html

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Or if you are on 1.8, you can start here: http://xibo.org.uk/manual-tempel/en/api.html or here 1.8 API Introduction

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I am using XIBO 1.7.9 and going through the API documentation at http://xibo.org.uk/manual-tempel/api/ I see only functions to tag or untag media.

Does XIBO 1.7.9 supports to add media files through API ?

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The API documentation you linked is for 1.8 and 1.8 does support everything, regarding media - the media upload (library/add) and assign (playlist/library/assign) are the ones you’re looking for - which is described step by step in my guide linked by Dan.

Now, 1.8 does support adding/editing of all modules (not only media based), but it’s not documented yet - we’re in the process of doing that along with the tests for them.

Regarding 1.7 API, you can have a look here - http://xibo.org.uk/2014/02/19/scripting-xibo-content-management-a-brief-tour-of-the-api/ or http://xibo.org.uk/manual/en/api_library.html

You will find that, being a BETA, the 1.7 api is not as full featured as 1.8 and lacks documentation. For API use we’d recommend to either use 1.8.0-rc2 currently available or wait for full release.

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Sorry to dig up an old item, but is there any plans to add the ability to assign media to a display on a schedule instead of using a display group? We currently have over 100 displays (and growing) that we are assigning to different media feeds. We are using the API to get an image from a feed and assign to a display group. However, we need to do many different feeds and we don’t want to create a display group per display.

Just thought I would ask.

Thanks, guys!
Nathan

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No problem.

Each display already has its own display group created for you - you can get the ID from the GET /display API call. We call this the “display specific display group” - snappy!

I think this means you already have what you need?

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i am able to upload through postman. However, when I check the file in the CMS it just shows a red x as if postman didn’t send any file data. Any ideas?

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Could you confirm CMS version please?
and if it’s docker or manual installation?

If you upload the same file to the CMS via web ui does it get correctly displayed?

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this is my python code

import requests
import json

token_url = ‘http://mydomain/api/authorize/access_token’
library = ‘http://mydomain/api/library’

client_id = ‘*********’
client_secret = ‘************************’

data = {‘grant_type’:‘client_credentials’}

access_token_response = requests.post(token_url,data=data,verify=False,allow_redirects=False,auth=(client_id, client_secret))

tokens = json.loads(access_token_response.text)

print("Bearer " + tokens[‘access_token’])

headers = {‘Authorization’: "Bearer " + tokens[‘access_token’],‘Cache-Control’:‘no-cache’,‘content-type’: ‘multipart/form-data’}

payload = {‘Content-Disposition’: ‘form-data’,‘name’:‘files’,‘filename’:“image.jpg”,}

data = json.dumps(payload)
response = requests.request(‘POST’,library,data=data,headers=headers)
print(response.text)

i’m getting this error with xibo upload api

“files”:[{“name”:“1492523640-7615”,“size”:1316610,“type”:“multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------------449316675376425057078541”,“error”:“Filetype not allowed”}]}

i’m using xibo 1.8.9 version …

please give me solution