API talk:Upload

Flag: Don't overwrite existing file
It would be nice if there was a flag that said: Don't overwrite any already existing file. This could help in preventing errors in bots, especially as Special:Upload mangles the filename a bit, so it's not entirely trivial to make sure a file of a given name does not already exist. --Tbleher 20:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Good one. I'll keep this in mind. --Catrope 21:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

File Contents?
Could you be more specific on the file contents? Is it just a bunch of bytes, UUEncoded, HEX, or what?


 * Assuming you mean direct upload, the file content should be sent as part of the request in multipart/form-data format, so essentially yes, just a bunch of bytes. Gurch 05:03, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Upload by URL
I'm not having much more luck than you with uploading by URL. I did try retrieving httpstatus using the session key, and got the following result:

{u'upload': {u'content_length': u'5706', u'loaded': 5706, u'upload_session_key': u'12345'}}

But the file wasn't actually uploaded, and I don't see any way of determining what went wrong. --R&#39;n&#39;B 18:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It was broken before, was fixed in r58337 -- Gurch 05:11, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Unrecognized value for parameter action: upload
I'm trying to upload a file via wget. Login and fetching token is OK, but on upload...

wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -O upload.xml \ --post-data "action=upload&filename=atlasmw-export.xml&file=[content goes here]&token=$EDITTOKEN" \ $API

I get this:

&lt;error code=&quot;unknown_action&quot; info=&quot;Unrecognized value for parameter &amp;#039;action&amp;#039;: upload&quot; xml:space=&quot;preserve&quot;&gt;

Documentation says:

api.php ? action=upload & filename=Test.txt & file=file_contents_here & token=+\

What's wrong? Using MediaWiki 1.15.1. Jpatokal 03:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a 1.16 feature. Max Semenik 05:45, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

overwrite: text parameter ignored
is there a good reason the text parameter is ignored when overwriting an existing file? imho it would make sense to overwrite the description, too. -- ∂ 23:55, 23 April 2010 (UTC)