Graph API One Drive Upload Image from URL

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Graph API One Drive Upload Image from URL

Nicholas Roeder 26

I'm trying to upload an image from a URL but cannot get it to work, the file is created but has no data. I've looked through all documents and cannot seem to find the issue. User account E3 license.

Dillon Silzer 57,826 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2022-09-18T18:15:14.137+00:00

What API are you using? The Upload small files API?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_put_content?view=odsp-graph-online
Nicholas Roeder 26 Reputation points

2022-09-18T18:17:09.617+00:00

Graph API, Yes.

Does not work.

Not sure if it's because it's a business onedrive account, saw posts from years ago there was a limitation on business vs personal.

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Dillon Silzer 57,826 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2022-09-18T18:15:14.137+00:00

What API are you using? The Upload small files API?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_put_content?view=odsp-graph-online
Nicholas Roeder 26 Reputation points

2022-09-18T18:17:09.617+00:00

Graph API, Yes.

Does not work.

Not sure if it's because it's a business onedrive account, saw posts from years ago there was a limitation on business vs personal.

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Srinivasa Rao Darna 6,761 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Nicholas Roeder ,

You can upload files to OneDrive, and the contents of the request body should be the binary stream of the file to be uploaded.
With following example, I am able to upload a image file.

PUT /me/drive/root:/FolderA/FileB.png:/content  
Content-Type: image/png  
  
The contents of the file goes here.

Here is the result of my test,

Reference: driveitem-put-content.

Hope this helps.
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Nicholas Roeder 26 Reputation points

2022-09-19T16:45:55.857+00:00

The file is created but content is blank.

In the body do I just put the url?

{
"http://url.image.jpg"
}
Srinivasa Rao Darna 6,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-09-19T16:54:48.093+00:00

Please note that The contents of the request body should be the binary stream of the file to be uploaded driveitem-put-content.

Using Path or URL of the file in the request body are not currently supported.

Hope this helps.
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Nicholas Roeder 26 Reputation points

2022-09-19T16:59:08.697+00:00

Can you suggest any way to copy images from azure blob to user's one drive via api?
Charles Qi_MSFT 976 Reputation points

2022-09-20T02:52:33.333+00:00

Hi, @Nicholas Roeder

We suggest you to download the images from azure blob to local PC, then upload to one drive via api.
Srinivasa Rao Darna 6,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-09-20T09:19:59.813+00:00

Hi @Nicholas Roeder ,

The option would be to use get/download the image from Azure blob storage to local, and then use the binary stream to upload to OneDrive.

Alternatively, consider using this Power Automate, low-code/no-code platform you can use the template: create-SharePoint-file-when-an-azure-blob-is-added-or-modified

Hope this helps.
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Nicholas Roeder 26 Reputation points

2022-09-20T12:42:07.447+00:00

Yeah i saw the power automate ability which made me believe this should be possible from the api. It doesn't make sense to download a file just to upload it back to the server, it's a waste of resources and bandwidth.
Srinivasa Rao Darna 6,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-09-21T12:03:01.397+00:00
Hello @Nicholas Roeder ,

If you are using OneDrive Personal you can consider using the preview release of driveitem_upload_url.
Currently there is no support for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.
Here is the sample request payload

POST /drive/items/{parent-item}/children Content-Type: application/json Prefer: respond-async { "@microsoft.graph.sourceUrl": "http://wscont2.apps.microsoft.com/winstore/1x/e33e38d9-d138-42a1-b252-27da1924ca87/Screenshot.225037.100000.jpg", "name": "halo-screenshot.jpg", "file": { } }

Hope this helps.

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