Upload Images to Storage from ext. URL

Sönke Manaré

Hi there,

I am using Xano Storage to upload base64 encoded image data, which works well.

Now I am struggling with a similar task: In my CRUD API I receive an image URL which is located on an external server (via external API). I need to upload (copy) that image from the external url to my own Xano space. 

Actually I couldnt find a way to do that. Any ideas about that?

Thank you,
Sönke

Lukasz Kwiatkowski

I think if you are use input as file resource, then a function to add image meta data to this input (file resources) and then write it in your table as image it should work

Sönke Manaré

Hey, thank you for the approach. Solved it like this: Created a custom function, added "file resource" as input type and added the function "create image from file". Input to that function is the file resource.

In that way I was able to use my custom function directly in a separate API Logic flow. The custom function accepts both (external image url or base64 encoded data) as input. If I give an external url as input, the image from that url is copied to XANO storage. Love it