Create a new Assembly

An Assembly can process and export files. Assembly Instructions determine how we should process them. Instructions can be passed in directly (inside a steps parameter), or be saved in a Template (referred to in a template_id parameter). Templates allow you to re-use instructions, evolve them without deploying your app, and to not expose any secrets to where your app is deployed.

We accept multipart/form-data POST requests to accommodate regular <form> uploads to our service (as well as XHR / SDK usage).

Multiple files can be included as part of this request. If you want to perform resumable file uploads, the files are not included in this request as described in Resumable Uploads.

POST fields

• Passing signature is optional. For more information please check Signature Authentication.
• Passing params is required. It should contain a JSON encoded object with the keys as shown in the table below.
• Passing num_expected_upload_files is optional. When using resumable uploads, it specifies the nunber of files that will be uploaded. More details are provided in Resumable Uploads.

Supported keys inside the params field

• auth

  Objectrequired

  Contains at least your Transloadit Auth Key in the key property.

  If you enable Signature Authentication, you'll also set an expiry date for the request in the expires property like so:

  {
    "key": "23c96d084c744219a2ce156772ec3211",
    "expires": "2023/01/01 16:53:14+00:00"
  }
  

  The referer property is a regular expression to match against the HTTP referer of this upload, such as "example\.org". Specify this key to make sure that uploads only come from your domain.

  Uploads without a referer will always pass (as they are turned off for some browsers) making this useful in just a handful of use cases. For details about regular expressions, see Mozilla's RegExp documentation.

  The max_size property can be used to set a maximum size that an upload can have in bytes, such as 1048576 (1 MB). Specify this to prevent users from uploading excessively large files.

  When using this key, make sure that it is specified as a hidden max_size form field, since setting max_size in a Template will have no effect.

  The file size is checked as soon as the upload is started and if it exceeds the maximum size, the entire upload process is canceled and the Assembly will error out, even if it contains files that do not exceed the max_size limitation.

  If you want to just ignore the files that exceed a certain size, but process all others, then please use 🤖/file/filter.

• steps

  Object ⋅ default: {}

  Contains Assembly Instructions. Example:

  "encoded": {
    "use": ":original",
    "robot": "/video/encode",
    "preset": "iphone-high"
  },
  "thumbed": {
    "use": "encoded",
    "robot": "/video/thumbs",
    "count": 8
  }
  

  Note: By default you may use the steps parameter to overrule Template Steps at runtime. If you set allow_steps_override to false then steps and template_id will be mutually exclusive and you may only supply one of these parameters. See Overruling Templates at Runtime.

• template_id

  String ⋅ default: ""

  The ID of the Template that contains your Assembly Instructions. If you set allow_steps_override to false then steps and template_id will be mutually exclusive and you may only supply one of these parameters.

• notify_url

  String ⋅ default: ""

  Transloadit can send a Pingback to your server when the Assembly is completed. We'll send the Assembly status in a form url-encoded JSON string inside of a transloadit field in a multipart POST request to the URL supplied here.

• fields

  Object ⋅ default: {}

  An object of string to string pairs (name -> value) that can be used as Assembly Variables, just like additional form fields can. For example, to dynamically have us resize images based on an end-user provided width, you could use ${fields.user_width} in your Assembly Instructions, and either post an <input name="user_width" value="800" /> or supply this fields param with the following object:

  {
    "user_width": 800
  }
  

• allow_steps_override

  Boolean ⋅ default: true

  Set this to false to disallow Overruling Templates at Runtime. If you set this to false then template_id and steps will be mutually exclusive and you may only supply one of those parameters. Recommended when deploying Transloadit in untrusted environments. This makes sense to set as part of a Template, rather than on the Assembly itself when creating it.

Response

Here’s an example response body:

{
  "ok": "ASSEMBLY_EXECUTING",
  "http_code": 200,
  "message": "The assembly is currently being executed.",
  "assembly_id": "0fce5b1063e611e88d8eb130f7921d8a",
  "parent_id": null,
  "account_id": "6c8b8d10d68b11e3a799b579dfce333a",
  "template_id": null,
  "instance": "morven.transloadit.com",
  "assembly_url": "http://api2.morven.transloadit.com/assemblies/0fce5b1063e611e88d8eb130f7921d8a",
  "assembly_ssl_url": "https://api2-morven.transloadit.com/assemblies/0fce5b1063e611e88d8eb130f7921d8a",
  "uppyserver_url": "https://api2-morven.transloadit.com/uppy-server/",
  "websocket_url": "https://api2-morven.transloadit.com/ws20243",
  "tus_url": "https://api2-morven.transloadit.com/resumable/files/",
  "bytes_received": 1687,
  "bytes_expected": 1687,
  "upload_duration": 0.049,
  "start_date": "2018/05/30 08:47:19 GMT",
  "warnings": [],
  "execution_start": "2018/05/30 08:47:19 GMT",
  "execution_duration": 0.001,
  "queue_duration": 0.04,
  "jobs_queue_duration": 0,
  "fields": {},
  "bytes_usage": 0,
  "template": null,
  "uploads": [
    ...
  ],
  "results": {
    ...
  }
}