How to correctly use the AnonFiles API to post files? - api

Question

I am trying to make a function where it hosts your file on the anonfiles.com website using the anonfiles API. Even thought I am correctly using the api, it always returns nil. Response is missing message.
func host(file string) {
fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not read file,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
url := "https://api.anonfiles.com/upload"
request, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(fileBytes))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not post request,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
request.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
client := &http.Client{}
response, err := client.Do(request)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not send request,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
defer response.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not read response,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
var result map[string]interface{}
err = json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not parse response,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
if response.StatusCode == 200 {
if result["url"] == nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Response is missing URL\033[0m")
return
}
fmt.Println("File hosted successfully:", result["url"].(string))
} else {
if result["message"] == nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Response is missing message\033[0m")
return
}
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host:\033[0m", result["message"].(string))
}
}

Answer 1

I'd thought I'd take a moment to expand those comments into an answer.
First, as we we've already discussed, you're not using the correct API to upload files. If we modify your code to show the complete response body, like this:
client := &http.Client{}
response, err := client.Do(request)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not send request,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
defer response.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("\033[1;31mCommand > Host: Could not read response,", err, "\033[0m")
return
}
fmt.Printf("BODY:\n%s\n", body)
We see the following:
{
"status": false,
"error": {
"message": "No file chosen.",
"type": "ERROR_FILE_NOT_PROVIDED",
"code": 10
}
}
We're getting this error because you're not providing the file parameter in a multipart/form-data request. The post to which I linked earlier has several examples of sending a multipart request; I've tested a couple of them and they seem to work as expected.
You're also making incorrect assumptions about the response returned by the API. If we make a successful request using curl and capture the response JSON, we find that it looks like this:
{
"status": true,
"data": {
"file": {
"url": {
"full": "https://anonfiles.com/k8cdobWey7/test_txt",
"short": "https://anonfiles.com/k8cdobWey7"
},
"metadata": {
"id": "k8cdobWey7",
"name": "test.txt",
"size": {
"bytes": 12,
"readable": "12 B"
}
}
}
}
}
Note that there is no response["url"] or response["message"]. If you want the URL for the uploaded file, you need to get response["data"]["file"]["url"]["full"] (or ["short"]).
Similarly, we can see examples of the error response above, which looks like this:
{
"status": false,
"error": {
"message": "No file chosen.",
"type": "ERROR_FILE_NOT_PROVIDED",
"code": 10
}
}
That's not result["message"]; that's result["error"]["message"].
Because you're unmarshalling into a map[string]interface, getting at these nested keys is going to be a bit of a pain. I found it easiest to create Go structs for the above responses, and just unmarshal into an appropriately typed variable.
That gets me the following types:
type (
AnonFilesUrl struct {
Full string `json:"full"`
Short string `json:"short"`
}
AnonFilesMetadata struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Name string `json:"name"`
Size struct {
Bytes int `json:"bytes"`
Readable string `json:"readable"`
} `json:"size"`
}
AnonFilesData struct {
File struct {
URL AnonFilesUrl `json:"url"`
Metadata AnonFilesMetadata `json:"metadata"`
} `json:"file"`
}
AnonFilesError struct {
Message string
Type string
Code int
}
AnonFilesResponse struct {
Status bool `json:"status"`
Data AnonFilesData `json:"data"`
Error AnonFilesError `json:"error"`
}
)
And then unmarshalling the response looks like:
var result AnonFilesResponse
err = json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
And we can ask for fields like:
fmt.Printf("URL: %s\n", result.Data.File.URL.Full)