Upload file to Xano bypassing WeWeb CDN

[garcilaso]

Hello,

I need to upload files directly to Xano bypassing WeWeb’s CDN - basically because I need to upload files over 50mb.

It seems that there used to be documentation about this but it’s not accessible anymore.

(@Joyce this is the broken link I’m referring to, which is included in many older posts: https://docs.weweb.io/workflows/actions/file-upload.html#need-to-upload-a-file-directly-to-your-backend-bypassing-weweb-s-cdn-🤔)

Can anyone provide insight on how to achieve this?

Thank you very much in advance.

[iconic (adesina samuel)]

just encode the file as base64 in weweb and then use the file upload endpoint in xano

[Joyce]

Hi @garcilaso

Indeed, here is the updated link

Upload file (via WeWeb's CDN) | Documentation

If you navigate to the “Bypass WeWeb’s CDN” section, you should find the info you’re looking for

[garcilaso]

Hi @Joyce

Thank you very much for sharing that! Unfortunatelly, I follow the instructions and I still get this error on the Encode file as Base64: Failed to execute ‘readAsDataURL’ on ‘FileReader’: parameter 1 is not of type ‘Blob’.

I’ve noticed that this is happening with the new upload file component, but it seems to work fine with the old one.

[DanielL (Daniel)]

Hi @garcilaso

I don’t think you still need to use Base64. It makes the file 33% larger. To upload files to Xano, you can just upload the binary file using the Request action with media type multipart/form-data directly to your Xano endpoint with an input of type File Resource.