Testing file uploads with Postman (multipart/form-data)

I will show you how to debug an upload script and demonstrate it with a tool called Postman that can make requests encoded as "multipart/form-data" so that you can send also a file.

After this, we will go even further and write tests and begin automating the process.

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⌨️ 00:00 - Introduction
⌨️ 01:38 - Upload a file
⌨️ 06:14 - Write tests for file upload
⌨️ 10:00 - Automate with Newman
⌨️ 17:10 - Upload multiple files

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[erpnedir]

I found answers to some of my questions which I was searching for a long time. Thank you very much.

[WrongR]

Thank you! It was very helpful and it still works :)

[WrongR]

Hi! I have 2 reconds in CSV file, but Newman iterates thru 4 records somehow. 2 test passes and other 2 fails obviously. Do you know why does it happen?

[ansulaas]

How can we create a bucket and upload a file on it via POSTMAN?

[maddevskilz]

This is fantastic! Very professional!

[CyclingEveryday]

Thanks Valentina..This is really a nice video which explains the steps very well

[warnetpejaten]

Thank you so much and wow running well ...

[patelmilan]

I have try this step but i am not able to input the image with the given above step in postman.
Note:-1) I am trying to input image in frappe form,
2) I also have some other parameters like datetime, date, text, number they are being inputed with the help of this method,
3) Showing error:- api_tickengenerate() missing 1 required positional argument: 'save_image'\\n\"]"

[chandanad]

Hi, I am trying to upload file but request body its going as undefined, could you please help me on these

[priyaporwal]

Hello Valentin,
on running 2 iterations of data.csv i am getting - iteration: 2 read ECONNRESET at request.
Can you help me with this error.

[subhamchoudhary]

mine gives error every time i.e this file isnt in working how to solve

[shahnawazalam]

Can i access local file from postman where json schema is stored? i want to use same file in test case to validate schema.

[nasirmehmood_]

Object reference not set to an instance of an object. getting error message while uploading file. Whats the issue ?

[mykelchang]

I wish there was a way to set "src" value from postman.

I've ended up writing a custom script to override the "src" value for every "file" field of the collection json file, which is a pain :'(

[leophysics]

What data in request body is that a byte array something else

[viratlilly]

Hi Valentin,
I have question, if I want to upload file as raw (in body) data with file name and json string .How can we achieve this? Please suggest.
Regards,
Krishna

[sinchanam]

Can we send object as request body from UI along with multi part file?

[vdespa]

Download the FREE Postman Quick Reference Guide

[ojiamboivangsp]

thank you, I was strugling on how to upload files....

[obulareddyg]

Can we send more than 2gb files by using @post request