WP REST attachment

Question

How do I attach images and videos on my post via WP REST API?
I was trying via /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3372/meta including form-data key and value (images) but returns the following

{
    "code": "rest_forbidden",
    "message": "Sorry, you cannot view this post.",
    "data": {
        "status": 401
    }
}

https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/#update-a-post — dingo_d, Nov 16 '17 at 20:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '18 at 10:20

WPAPI Official has a good article about this.

You need to do the following two steps.

Upload media via REST API. This is done in a POST request, for more info, see this answer .
If you wish to set the uploaded media as featured image, include the media id in featured_media field in your POST request, see this doc.
If you wish to attach image in to content of a post, then you'll need to create an image tag in content html. Like <img src="linkToUploadedMedia">

WP REST attachment

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