Automation Workshop includes the Upload File to Website Action for sending local files to websites, web services, and API endpoints. It provides a flexible way to automate file uploads as a raw HTTP request body, including REST APIs, cloud platforms, internal systems, and other online destinations.
Use Upload File to Website Action to submit documents, reports, images, exports, backups, logs, archives, and other files as part of an automated workflow. Upload behavior can be customized with request headers, cookies, query parameters, authentication, flow control, and Internet & Web Profiles.
Features & highlights
- Push local files to websites and APIs as binary/text upload with precise request configuration, secure authentication, and granular control of connections, transfer speed, and execution limits using Internet & Web Profiles.
- Use POST, PUT, PATCH, or any custom HTTP method required by the destination endpoint, with direct file-upload support for major cloud storage services, REST APIs, content platforms, and custom web applications. Send files together with headers, cookies, query parameters, and additional request data required by the target service.
- Use authentication, TLS settings, redirects, timeouts, retries, bandwidth throttling, and connection limits for controlled upload workflows. Read upload results, response codes, headers, and returned server content for validation and later workflow decisions.
Usage examples
- Upload generated reports, invoices, exports, logs, or other data files to websites and web applications that support streaming upload
application/octet-stream. - Send images, documents, archives, or backup files to a REST API, cloud service, or custom upload endpoint without URL encoding or multipart/form-data packaging.
- Submit files through authenticated web services that require headers, cookies, tokens, or query parameters.
- Verify upload success by checking server response codes, returned content, response headers, or workflow variables.
- Automate scheduled file delivery from local folders to online systems and HTTP services that expect the payload itself in the request body, such as object-storage services, WebDAV servers, and file-upload endpoints.
Documentation
- Upload · Select the local file and define the destination website, service, or API endpoint.
- Headers · Add custom request headers for upload requirements, content negotiation, authentication support, caching, user agent, and other request details.
- Cookies · Provide cookies for sessions, preferences, authentication, or server-side state during the upload.
- Params · Add query parameters to the upload URL without manually editing the full address.
- Flow · Configure response waiting, timeout behavior, response code handling, and workflow continuation rules after the upload request.
- Extras · Fine-tune optional upload details, including highly specific request, response, transfer, and processing behavior.
- Options · Access the full Action configuration, including state, display name, error handling, logging behavior, and other advanced options.
Interconnect
- Upload File to Website integration—with Variables (manipulate data dynamically within a workflow) and Events (recorded entries that detail system activity).
- Streamline your automation processes by visually connecting your workflow using Variable Wizard—a powerful tool to access all 1,000+ variables—system, network, Triggers, Actions, globals, web, and much more…
Quick access
To streamline your workflow creation, you can locate the Upload File to Website Action throughout Automation Workshop's search tools—including the knowledge base, menu, and Add Action feature—using quick shortcuts like «UFW», «UTW», or «UF».
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