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hypervillain
hypervillain

Reputation: 393

Can't get URL of a file stored on filepicker, using node.js

Trying to find a solution for storing some files from a lil' app I'm currently building, I tried to use a filepicker node module and tried the simplest example I could create:

app.get('/test', function(req, res) {
  fs.readFile('myFile.txt', function (err, buf){
      filepicker.getUrlFromBuffer(buf, {persist: true}, function (err, url) {
          console.log("myfile.txt is now stored at " + url);
      });
      return res.send('something');
  });

I get this error message : "TypeError: Cannot read property 'url' of undefined". But when I check the console on filepicker.io site, I can see that the file has been uploaded.

Here is the github repo I got the filepicker node module from: https://github.com/treygriffith/filepicker/blob/master/README.md

Thank you guys!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 550

Answers (1)

mscdex
mscdex

Reputation: 106736

Most likely filepicker.io changed their API since that module was last updated (2012). Here is documentation for their current REST API which should be easy enough to use manually with a module like request to upload the file. Example:

var request = require('request');
var FILEPICKER_API_KEY = 'foobarbaz';

var formData = {
      fileUpload: fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/unicycle.jpg')
    },
    cfg = {
      url: 'https://www.filepicker.io/api/store/S3?key=' + FILEPICKER_API_KEY,
      formData: formData
    };
request.post(cfg, function(err, res, body) {
  if (err)
    return console.error('upload failed:', err);
  var response;
  try {
    response = JSON.parse(body);
  } catch (ex) {
    console.log(ex);
  }
  if (response)
    console.dir(response);
});

Upvotes: 1

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