Upload PDF to Content Builder using REST

Question

Has anyone uploaded a PDF to Content Builder using REST? I think this is the Route, just not sure exactly how it works.

POST /asset/v1/content/assets

I see a few properties:

Data    object      Property bag containing the asset data
Content string      The actual content of the asset

Looking to upload the PDF in Content Builder for use as an Email Attachment.

Answer 1

As per your post I was able to upload a pdf file into sfmc content builder. It took me a little while to gather all the necessary attributes but it is all available in REST Reference API.

Here are the steps and things to consider:

• Make sure the API user account has Assets read and write access.
• Your pdf file that needs to be uploaded to the content builder needs to be Base64Encoded which you can convert using this website.
• If you wish to upload the pdf file to a specific folder within content builder then you need to specify the folder ID and name within the category object attribute.
• Also proper assetType needs to be set for specific type of file - in your situation it is name as pdf and id as 127.

• Also I am using Postman to test this scenario.

• Below is the sample request which works successfully:

Header

• POST
• Content-Type: application/json
• Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}
• URL: https://www.exacttargetapis.com/asset/v1/content/assets

Body

{ "name": "pdf name to be uploaded", "assetType": { "name": "pdf", "id": 127 }, "category": { "id": 123456 (ID of the folder) , "name": "name of folder where pdf is uploaded" }, "file": "xxxxxBase64Encoded-Filexxxxx" }