i seen on some forums that u can upload from a url rather than local drive

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SeanBannister’s picture

SeanBannister CreditAttribution: SeanBannister commented
Title: upload from url? » Upload files from a URL (Transloading)

I support this feature. The ability to enter a URL into a filefield would be very useful for users and module developers.
I have a module I would like to integrate with filefield and it would need the ability to accept URLs. I believe this is known as Transloading.

Flying Drupalist’s picture

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Title: Upload files from a URL (Transloading) » Upload files from a URL (Transloading/External Upload)

I'm requesting this feature as well.

illuminaut’s picture

illuminaut CreditAttribution: illuminaut commented

supporting the request.

watbe’s picture

watbe CreditAttribution: watbe commented

+1

fracti0n’s picture

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+1

drewish’s picture

drewish CreditAttribution: drewish commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

take a look at something like mediamover

drjonez’s picture

drjonez CreditAttribution: drjonez commented

Even just a way to change the LINK of a file - I have a client that has a server with an 8MB upload limit. When we have large files we need to upload, I have to upload a dummy file and then go in and replace the file via FTP. It would at least make sense to be able to just push a link in that would point directly to the file without having to go through the upload form. subscribing

SeanBannister’s picture

SeanBannister CreditAttribution: SeanBannister commented

MediaMover does not fit our requirements.

I am looking at creating an RSS aggregation site using FeedAPI. Some of the feeds I use include images but I don't want to hot link the images from someone else's server I plan to create a module that feeds the images address into FileField where they would be stored on the server. This way if I don't like an image I could edit the node and upload my own.

There are also other situations where I want to upload a file not from my hard disk but from a third party server.

aaron’s picture

aaron CreditAttribution: aaron commented

there's are several duplicate feature requests for this for emfield. the current related active issues are at #203085: Patch-Attempt and #300006: Update emthumb to work with Drupal 6 / CCK 2.

SeanBannister’s picture

SeanBannister CreditAttribution: SeanBannister commented

Aaron, are you in support of this feature for FileField? Because http://drupal.org/node/300006 seems to be a really good use case. If so I'd like to see if Drewish would consider setting this to "active" again.

aaron’s picture

aaron CreditAttribution: aaron commented

See the Media project: that will do what you want. Hopefully slated for release at DCDC; you're welcome to join its team at the Media Sprint.

chasz’s picture

chasz CreditAttribution: chasz commented

http://imageshack.us/

imageshack has a transloader, if u are looking for inspiration

SeanBannister’s picture

SeanBannister CreditAttribution: SeanBannister commented

Awesome work, that looks really good.

joelstein’s picture

joelstein CreditAttribution: joelstein commented

Also check out FieldField Sources. It does exactly what you need.

squarecandy’s picture

squarecandy CreditAttribution: squarecandy commented

Thanks for recommending FileField Sources joelstein - totally perfect!

areynolds’s picture

areynolds CreditAttribution: areynolds commented

If you need to do any batch transloading and are using Feeds, check out this patch. It'll let you map File/ImageFields using the Feeds module, which saved me a good little bit of time when I was doing some large imports of pictures from external URLs.