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# Upload files to Drive.

POST https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload
Content-Type: multipart/form-data

Upload one or more files to Drive.

* `files`: the file uploads (multipart)
* `metadata`: a JSON string containing a list of per-file metadata dicts,
  positionally aligned with `files`. Each dict may contain:
  * `path`   — fully qualified destination path (takes precedence)
  * `folder` — destination folder
  * `name`   — destination filename

Resolution logic for each file at index i:

* If path is provided, use it as the fully qualified path
* Else if folder and name are provided, combine as \{folder}/\{name}
* Else if folder is provided, combine as \{folder}/\{upload\_filename}
* Else if name is provided, use /\{name} (root)
* Else fall back to None (domain default behavior)

Reference: https://ref.scoutos.com/api-sdk/endpoints/drive/upload

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Body (multipart/form-data)

This endpoint expects a multipart form with multiple files.

- `files` (files, required)
- `metadata` (string, optional)

## Response

### 200

Successful Response

- `data` (list of UploadedFile, required)

## Errors

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Validation Error

- `detail` (list of ValidationError, optional)

## Types

### UploadedFile

- `url` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `id` (string, required)
- `path` (string, optional, nullable)

### ValidationError

- `loc` (list of ValidationErrorLocItems, required)
- `msg` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required)

### ValidationErrorLocItems

- string
- integer

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "files": [
    "<file: project_proposal.pdf>",
    "<file: team_photo.jpg>"
  ]
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "url": "https://drive.example.com/files/12345/download",
      "name": "project_proposal.pdf",
      "id": "file-12345",
      "path": "/documents/project_proposal.pdf"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://drive.example.com/files/67890/download",
      "name": "team_photo.jpg",
      "id": "file-67890",
      "path": "/images/team_photo.jpg"
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload"

files = { "files": "open('team_photo.jpg', 'rb')" }
payload = { "metadata":  }
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

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

print(response.json())
```

```typescript
import { createReadStream } from "fs";
import { ScoutClient } from "scoutos";
import * as fs from "fs";

const client = new ScoutClient({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY" });
await client.drive.upload({
    files: [fs.createReadStream("/path/to/your/file")]
});

```

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"project_proposal.pdf\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"team_photo.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"metadata\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n")

	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(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload")

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=\"files\"; filename=\"project_proposal.pdf\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"team_photo.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"metadata\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n"

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

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"project_proposal.pdf\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"team_photo.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"metadata\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload', [
  'multipart' => [
    [
        'name' => 'files',
        'filename' => 'project_proposal.pdf',
        'contents' => null
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'files',
        'filename' => 'team_photo.jpg',
        'contents' => null
    ]
  ]
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddParameter("undefined", "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"project_proposal.pdf\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"files\"; filename=\"team_photo.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"metadata\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]
let parameters = [
  [
    "name": "files",
    "fileName": "project_proposal.pdf"
  ],
  [
    "name": "files",
    "fileName": "team_photo.jpg"
  ],
  [
    "name": "metadata",
    "value": 
  ]
]

let boundary = "---011000010111000001101001"

var body = ""
var error: NSError? = nil
for param in parameters {
  let paramName = param["name"]!
  body += "--\(boundary)\r\n"
  body += "Content-Disposition:form-data; name=\"\(paramName)\""
  if let filename = param["fileName"] {
    let contentType = param["content-type"]!
    let fileContent = String(contentsOfFile: filename, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    if (error != nil) {
      print(error as Any)
    }
    body += "; filename=\"\(filename)\"\r\n"
    body += "Content-Type: \(contentType)\r\n\r\n"
    body += fileContent
  } else if let paramValue = param["value"] {
    body += "\r\n\r\n\(paramValue)"
  }
}

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.scoutos.com/drive/upload")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```