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POST
/
v2
/
upload
Upload an audio file or provide an audio URL for processing
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.gladia.io/v2/upload \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --header 'x-gladia-key: <api-key>' \
  --form audio='@example-file'
import requests

url = "https://api.gladia.io/v2/upload"

files = { "audio": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
headers = {"x-gladia-key": "<api-key>"}

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

print(response.text)
const form = new FormData();
form.append('audio', '<string>');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {'x-gladia-key': '<api-key>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://api.gladia.io/v2/upload', 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://api.gladia.io/v2/upload",
  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=\"audio\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data",
    "x-gladia-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($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://api.gladia.io/v2/upload"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"audio\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

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

	req.Header.Add("x-gladia-key", "<api-key>")

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

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

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.gladia.io/v2/upload")
  .header("x-gladia-key", "<api-key>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"audio\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.gladia.io/v2/upload")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-gladia-key"] = '<api-key>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"audio\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "audio_url": "https://api.gladia.io/file/6c09400e-23d2-4bd2-be55-96a5ececfa3b",
  "audio_metadata": {
    "id": "6c09400e-23d2-4bd2-be55-96a5ececfa3b",
    "filename": "short-audio-en-16000.wav",
    "extension": "wav",
    "size": 365702,
    "audio_duration": 4.145782,
    "number_of_channels": 1,
    "source": "https://files.gladia.io/example/audio-transcription/split_infinity.wav"
  }
}

Authorizations

​
x-gladia-key
string
header
required

Your personal Gladia API key

Body

​
audio
file

The file to be uploaded. This should be an audio or video file.

Response

200 - application/json
​
audio_url
string<uri>
required

Uploaded audio file Gladia URL

Example:

"https://api.gladia.io/file/6c09400e-23d2-4bd2-be55-96a5ececfa3b"

​
audio_metadata
object
required

Uploaded audio file detected metadata