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<\/figure><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhat is a Cloud-Based API?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Cloud-based API is an application programming interface connecting locally based applications to cloud-based storage systems. Users can send data to the cloud-based API storage, access it, and work with it. The cloud-storage structure, like disk-based storage, is a target device for the application. APIs<\/a> communicate through rules that determine how applications, machines, and computers talk to one another. They are middle people between two machines that want to connect over a defined task. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suppose you want to sign in to Facebook from your smartphone. Here, you are instructing the Facebook app that you’d like to access your account. The phone application makes a call to an API to recover your Facebook credentials and account. Then Facebook would access this information from its servers, return it to the phone application, and you’ll be signed in to Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cloud-based APIs are specific and tailored to the storage service.<\/strong> For instance, APIs for file storage services function at the file and folder level, enabling tasks like downloading and uploading files. They also allow sharing of folders with many users. On the other hand, cloud object storage services may provide APIs that can create, delete, fetch objects, or perform other object-associated tasks on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow the steps below to upload files using cloud-based APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first step in using cloud-based APIs is to create a developer’s account. The developer’s account serves as a container for your cloud resources<\/strong>. It also lets you use the developer’s products or features like cloud logging and monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Developer’s accounts can own different resources, including API keys, service accounts, Compute Engine VMS, OAuth clients, BigQuery datasets, and Cloud Storage buckets. When an application calls a cloud API, the account owning the application credentials (client account) and the account owning the target resource (resource account) communicate. Sometimes a single API request may touch several resources, involving multiple resource accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many Cloud APIs out there. So, before you use any, look for the ones that suit your business needs best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You cannot use a Cloud API in your developer’s account without enabling it. When you enable an API, you accept its Terms of Service and billing responsibility – once done, it’s time to upload files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To upload files from your app to Cloud API storage, you’ll need to put a post request {Upload_Api} on the API interface and provide the file name externally, like Bytescale’s File Upload API<\/a>. <\/strong>This way, you’ll ensure the API gets the name and access it. The result would be your uploaded file ID and URL. Once uploaded, you can host or store the files on your Cloud-based API storage using the file URL or ID provided.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow Can You Upload and Host Files Using Cloud-Based APIs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Create a Developer’s Account<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Discover APIs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Enable APIs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Upload Files<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Billing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n