Upload a file and publish an article via the figshare API
domain: api.figshare.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Authenticate with an OAuth2 token (or personal token) and POST to /v2/account/articles with title and other metadata to create a private draft article
From the response, take the new article's id, then POST to /v2/account/articles/<id>/files to initiate a file upload and receive an upload_url/upload_token
Upload the file in parts to the returned upload service URL, following the chunked-upload protocol (including MD5 checksum verification) until all parts are sent
POST to the file's completion endpoint to signal the upload is finished and let figshare reassemble/validate the file
PATCH /v2/account/articles/<id> to fill in any remaining required metadata (authors, description, categories, license)
POST to /v2/account/articles/<id>/publish to make the article public and mint its DOI
Known gotchas
Uploading is a separate multi-step protocol (initiate, upload parts, complete) via a distinct upload-service URL — it is not a single-file POST like simpler APIs
Publishing is a distinct final action; an article can be fully created and have files attached yet remain unpublished (private) until the /publish call succeeds
Some metadata fields (e.g. category IDs, license IDs) must reference valid figshare-defined taxonomy values fetched from separate endpoints, not free-text strings
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