Method: media.upload

Uploads an attachment. For an example, see Upload media as a file attachment. Requires user authentication and the chat.messages or chat.messages.create authorization scope.

You can upload attachments up to 200 MB. Certain file types aren't supported. For details, see File types blocked by Google Chat.

HTTP request

  • Upload URI, for media upload requests:
    POST https://chat.googleapis.com/upload/v1/{parent=spaces/*}/attachments:upload
  • Metadata URI, for metadata-only requests:
    POST https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/{parent=spaces/*}/attachments:upload

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. Resource name of the Chat space in which the attachment is uploaded. Format "spaces/{space}".

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "filename": string
}
Fields
filename

string

Required. The filename of the attachment, including the file extension.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "attachmentDataRef": {
    object (AttachmentDataRef)
  }
}
Fields
attachmentDataRef

object (AttachmentDataRef)

Reference to the uploaded attachment.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.import
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.create
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages

For more information, see the Authorization guide.