How to send pictures to a POST API?

[Nameoh]

Hello everyone,

I have to dialog with an API who will give me a "score" for each picture I send for deep learning vision.

So I'm trying to send pictures to the POST API but as far, i couldn't succeed.

The http request node seems to be well configured as I receive this kind of errors :
"{"detail":[{"loc":["body","file"],"msg":"Expected UploadFile, received: <class str'>","type":"value_error"}]}"

I think that I have a format error in my code but I can't figured out with it.

I also tried to transform my picture to a buffer array but even like that I couldn't succeed.

Please help me !

Here is the flow I made :
(For security reasons, I had to remove URL / TLS / Authentication token and proxy from the http request node)

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Regards

[UnborN]

@Nameoh

I'm trying to send pictures to the POST API

what is this API ? is there any documentation on its use online ?

@Nameoh

also tried to transform my picture to a buffer array

Have you tried also with the Read File node ?

.. its part of the core nodes and it also supports reading a file as buffer.

[Nameoh]

Many thanks to UnborN who be able to help me.

I post the flow below for those who were interested.
(Of course i deleted URL / proxy / TLS / and authentication token for security reasons)

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