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paynestrike
paynestrike

Reputation: 4658

How to limit upload file size in express.js

i got this error says

error:request entity too large

when uploading a video about 30MB,

here is the setting code 

app.use(express.bodyParser({
    uploadDir:'./Temp',
    maxFieldsSize:'2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ',
}));

am not sure how to set the maxFieldsSize property, need some help!!!

Upvotes: 17

Views: 70683

Answers (7)

Ralph Maruva
Ralph Maruva

Reputation: 83

I faced this issue, did what the responses here said. didnt seem to work out, ting is for me my node js was on cloud im using nginx so it. so basically i just have to add this to my ningix and it worked: `server:

server { ... client_max_body_size 100M; }`

Upvotes: 1

Meisterunner
Meisterunner

Reputation: 262

In 2020 Express uses the body-parser urlencoded function to control the limit. http://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#express.urlencoded

These are the default settings inside node_modules>body-parser>lib>types>urlencoded.js https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser

  var extended = opts.extended !== false
  var inflate = opts.inflate !== false
  var limit = typeof opts.limit !== 'number'
    ? bytes.parse(opts.limit || '100kb')
    : opts.limit
  var type = opts.type || 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  var verify = opts.verify || false

You can see here that the default setting for limit is 100kb. so in order to up that you can use 

app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false, limit: '2gb' }));

here are the filetype options available via NPM package bytes ( used by bodyparser ) https://www.npmjs.com/package/bytes

"b" for bytes
"kb" for kilobytes
"mb" for megabytes
"gb" for gigabytes
"tb" for terabytes
"pb" for petabytes

I'm sure this was overkill but I hope this helps the next person.

Upvotes: 11

Aashish Prajapat
Aashish Prajapat

Reputation: 43

var upload = multer({ storage : storage2, limits: { fileSize: 1024 * 1024 * 50 } });

correct format for increasing file uploading size with multer in nodejs

Upvotes: 4

shodgkins
shodgkins

Reputation: 41

I'm using Express 4. I tried numerous app.use() statements, including the non-deprecated ones listed on this thread, but none of them worked.

Instead, it turned out I only needed to add one line to index.js to change the maxFileSize option in the Formidable module:

// create an incoming form object
var form = new formidable.IncomingForm();

// ADD THIS LINE to increase file size limit to 10 GB; default is 200 MB
form.maxFileSize = 10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;

Source: Comments from here.

Upvotes: 4

Trí Công Vũ
Trí Công Vũ

Reputation: 99

// Comment sart   
// app.use(express.bodyParser({
//    uploadDir:'./Temp',
//    maxFieldsSize:'2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ',
// }));  

// Add this code for maximun 150mb 
app.use(bodyParser.json({limit: '150mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({     // to support URL-encoded bodies
limit: '150mb',
extended: true
})); 

// I did it Okay. Goood luck

Upvotes: 9

Will Hancock
Will Hancock

Reputation: 1240

app.use(express.limit('4mb'));

But you must make sure you add this line above the below, 

app.use(express.bodyParser());

or

app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded());

depending on which version you are using.

Upvotes: 3

Sdedelbrock
Sdedelbrock

Reputation: 5292

Express uses connect middleware, you can specify the file upload size by using the following

app.use(express.limit('4M'));

Connect Limit middleware

Upvotes: 15

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