Uploading files to an ownCloud server programmatically

javascript node.js file-upload socket.io owncloud
tampeta picture tampeta · Jul 15, 2014 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

I am trying to set a web application where many clients can connect through a Node.js http server and then upload/download files that will then be shown in different displays. I am thinking about having those files stored in a free cloud service that can be integrated to my app. Oh, and I am also using socket.IO in this project.

Dropbox offers some API to do this: https://www.dropbox.com/developers but I was looking into a free solution like ownCloud where I can have a larger amount of storage and also have my own private server.

Does anyone know if this can be done? or can offer any tips about alternative solutions to my problem? I would really appreciate any help with this since I am quite new to all this.

Answer

Frank Lu picture Frank Lu · Apr 1, 2015

@Javier Gonzalez, To upload a file...

Bad option:

curl -X PUT "http://yourserver.com/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/file.zip" -F myfile=@"/Users/Javi/Downloads/file.zip"

For, the uploaded file will contain the http headers.

Better option: 

curl -X PUT "http://yourserver.com/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/file.zip" --data-binary @"/Users/Javi/Downloads/file.zip"

Or just use curl -T filename url to upload

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