Upload a File - Pinata Docs

Upload a File

curl --request POST \
  --url https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form network=private \
  --form file='@example-file' \
  --form 'name=<string>' \
  --form 'group_id=<string>' \
  --form 'keyvalues={}' \
  --form car=true \
  --form cid_version=v1

import requests

url = "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
payload = {
    "network": "private",
    "name": "<string>",
    "group_id": "<string>",
    "keyvalues": "{}",
    "car": "true",
    "cid_version": "v1"
}
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, files=files, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('network', 'private');
form.append('file', '<string>');
form.append('name', '<string>');
form.append('group_id', '<string>');
form.append('keyvalues', '{}');
form.append('car', 'true');
form.append('cid_version', 'v1');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "cid": "<string>",
    "created_at": "<string>",
    "size": 123,
    "number_of_files": 123,
    "mime_type": "<string>",
    "user_id": "<string>",
    "group_id": "<string>",
    "is_duplicate": true
  }
}

POST

/

files

Upload a File

curl --request POST \
  --url https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form network=private \
  --form file='@example-file' \
  --form 'name=<string>' \
  --form 'group_id=<string>' \
  --form 'keyvalues={}' \
  --form car=true \
  --form cid_version=v1

import requests

url = "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
payload = {
    "network": "private",
    "name": "<string>",
    "group_id": "<string>",
    "keyvalues": "{}",
    "car": "true",
    "cid_version": "v1"
}
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, files=files, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('network', 'private');
form.append('file', '<string>');
form.append('name', '<string>');
form.append('group_id', '<string>');
form.append('keyvalues', '{}');
form.append('car', 'true');
form.append('cid_version', 'v1');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://uploads.pinata.cloud/v3/files")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"network\"\r\n\r\nprivate\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"group_id\"\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"keyvalues\"\r\n\r\n{}\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"car\"\r\n\r\ntrue\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"cid_version\"\r\n\r\nv1\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "cid": "<string>",
    "created_at": "<string>",
    "size": 123,
    "number_of_files": 123,
    "mime_type": "<string>",
    "user_id": "<string>",
    "group_id": "<string>",
    "is_duplicate": true
  }
}

The V3 Upload endpoint currently does not support folder uploads. Please use the legacy pinFileToIPFS endpoint

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

multipart/form-data

network

enum<string>

default:private

required

Determine if the file should be uploaded to either the public or private IPFS network. If not designated it will default to private.

Available options:

public,

private

file

file

required

File object you want to upload

name

string

Add a custom name for the file

group_id

string

ID of the group you would like to upload

keyvalues

object

Add additional key value metadata to files upon upload

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car

boolean

Upload a file as a raw CAR file (only supported for public network)

cid_version

enum<string>

default:v1

UnixFS import profile used to hash the upload. v1 (default) produces a CIDv1 (bafy…) with raw leaves, 256 KiB chunks and up to 174 links per node, matching ipfs add --cid-version=1. v0 produces a legacy CIDv0 (Qm…) with dag-pb leaves, matching ipfs add --cid-version=0. unixfs-v1-2025 produces a CIDv1 using the IPIP-499 profile — 1 MiB chunks and up to 1024 links per node — matching kubo's test-cid-v1-wide config profile. The profile is fixed when the upload is created and cannot be changed while resuming it.

Available options:

v0,

v1,

unixfs-v1-2025

Response

200 - application/json

Successful response

data

object

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