UploadListingImage endpoint "image" parameter unclear.

[Craig Williams]

Hi, I am having trouble understanding what is required in the "image" parameter when uploading an image to a listing. When I try to add binary data I get the following response content:

{"error":"Either a valid image file or a listing_image_id must be provided."}

I am uncertain exactly what is required; I have tried converting a binary byte array to a base64 string which had the same result. Is there a particular encoding required? 

To further cloud the issue the API reference states that the "image" parameter accepts: 'string <binary>The file name string of a file to upload'. However, the app is for duplication of listings from Shopify so I grab the image byte array from a URL.

The documentation isn't clear and unfortunately the development team haven't responded to me regarding this issue.

Any light shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Craig 

[Samuel]

There's some server-side parameter that's extremely finicky, although I haven't identified specifically which one it is. I've wasted a bunch of time with syntactially-correct file upload POSTs that were rejected by the server.

Delvng through the bug reports on github led me to find a solution that works. Here's Nate Sanden's PHP code that I've used successfully:

$curl = curl_init();

//path to the image you want to upload

//can be local path or remote url

$image_url = dirname(__FILE__).'/thumb.jpg';

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(

    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://openapi.etsy.com/v3/application/shops/[shop_id]/listings/[listing id]/images',

    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 => [

       'image' => new CURLFile($image_url),

       'name' => basename($image_url),

    ],

    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(

        'Content-Type: multipart/form-data',

        'x-api-key: '.$client_id,

        'Authorization: Bearer '.$access_token,

    ),

));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

echo $response;

[Jan Masar]

Hi

Are you using python? I have the same problem {'error': 'Either a valid image file or a listing_image_id must be provided.'} and I cant figure this out. 

I ask the question here in this group, it wasn't posted  (I tried twice). 

Please let me know if you have a solution.

Thanx

[joey...@gmail.com]

Thank you! This was a very helpful response. I was having the same problem, but your answer resolved it. I appreciate that you took the time to provide this.