upload images useing the chevereto api with php - php

Question

i am trying to upload images from my server to the img server where chevereto is installed but i cant get it to work
here is my code so far :
$directory = "/var/www";
$images = glob($directory . "/*.jpg");
foreach($images as $image)
{
echo $image;
$data = base64_encode(file_get_contents($image));
$run= shell_exec("curl --location --request POST \"http://ip/api/1/upload/?key=123456789&source=$data&format=json\"");
print_r($run);
}
getting error : 414 Request-URI Too Large
here is the api documentation : https://chevereto.com/docs/api-v1

Answer 1

You are using a POST request method, but you are sending the source parameter in URL.
The $data in your URL is base64 encoded, which results in a very large string. That's why you are getting the error 414 Request-URI Too Large.
Solution:
You should change the params to JSON body using the same POST method.
From the documentation of chevereto that you provided it is made clear.
API v1 calls can be done using the POST or GET request methods but since GET request are limited by the maximum allowed length of an URL you should prefer the POST request method.
So use POST method with JSON Body containing the parameters as key:value pair. That will solve the issue.
Sample PHP Code:
$requestData = [
'key' => 123456789,
'source' => 'base64EncodedStringHere',
'format' => 'json'
];
$jsonData = json_encode($jsonData);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "http://ip/api/1/upload",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $jsonData,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"Content-Type: application/json"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;