Create File - Flex Documentation

Create File

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.withflex.com/v1/files \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form purpose=account_requirement \
  --form file='@example-file'

import requests

url = "https://api.withflex.com/v1/files"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
payload = { "purpose": "account_requirement" }
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, files=files, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('purpose', 'account_requirement');
form.append('file', 'string');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://api.withflex.com/v1/files', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [\
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.withflex.com/v1/files",\
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,\
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",\
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,\
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,\
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,\
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",\
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"purpose\"\r\n\r\naccount_requirement\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",\
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [\
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",\
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"\
  ],\
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
}

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "net/http"
    "io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.withflex.com/v1/files"

payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"purpose\"\r\n\r\naccount_requirement\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.withflex.com/v1/files")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"purpose\"\r\n\r\naccount_requirement\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.withflex.com/v1/files")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"purpose\"\r\n\r\naccount_requirement\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response Codes

Example Response

{
  "file": {
    "file_id": "ffile_01J9XR8M3K7VZ8N2YB4WJ6T0RA",
    "purpose": "account_requirement",
    "size": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-06-15T14:30:00Z",
    "expires_at": "2026-06-15T14:30:00Z"
  }
}

Error Response Examples

{
  "code": "string",
  "detail": "string"
}

{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "string"
      ],
      "msg": "string",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

Authorization

Body

Required Fields