Please help with uploading images not in Camera Roll

[pakicoder123]

Hi, firstly I would like to say I really like this library and appreciate how well made it is.

The issue I'm having is that I don't know how to post a status with an image without using the camera roll. Is there anyway to get an image from a url on the internet and post that image to a twitter status along with some text? Please point me in the right direction, I couldn't find anything in your documentation.

Thank you so much for your time

[Piroro-hs]

React Native currently lacks Blob implementation, so getting an image from a url on the internet and posting that to a twitter is a little bit complicate work.

First, we need a file downloading library such as react-native-fetch-blob, react-native-fs, etc to download an image and get the uri of it. Below sample uses react-native-fetch-blob.

let imageUri = '';

RNFetchBlob
  .config({
    fileCache: true,
  })
  .fetch('GET', 'image url')
  .then((resp) => {
    const imagePath = resp.path();
    imageUri = `file://${imagePath}`;
  });

Then we can use this imageUri to create Object with uri property and pass it to rest.post().

rest.post('media/upload', {media: {uri: imageUri}})
  .then(({media_id_string}) => rest.post('statuses/update', {status: 'test', media_ids: media_id_string}));

When React Native gets support of Blob, I'll add some helper methods for media uploading.
(react/react-native#11417, react/react-native#11573)

[pakicoder123]

Thank you so much! I've been working countless hours on this, day and night, I appreciate the reply very much. Will the code you wrote above work as is or would I need to make any changes to it? Please let me know and again I would like to say that I appreciate your help and the wonderful library you've made.