Product image by ftp url

Question

I need to pass an url of an ftp to be the product image by the magento api, can I do this? Something like

{
            "attribute_code": "image",
            "value": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Alan-Walker-_Faded.jpg"
        }

I found the api to pass the image but it asks for a file and a base64 as below but this way it doesn't answer me.

{
"entry": {
"media_type": "image",
"label": "new_picture",
"types": [
  "image"
],
"file": "pic1.jpg",
"content": {
  "base64_encoded_data": "",
  "type": "image",
  "name": "pic1.jpg"
}
  }
}

Answer 1

You need to start emulation using this below code :

$this->appEmulation->startEnvironmentEmulation($storeId, \Magento\Framework\App\Area::AREA_FRONTEND, true);

After that, you can get product image full url in your rest api.

For more details : Click Here

Hope, It will helpful for you.

Answer 2

Short answer: no

You'll need to send the base64 encoded image in the base64_encoded_data param