# Sending image over the network

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/sending-image-over-the-network/2550903>\
**Category:** Web API's\
**Created:** [August 18, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sending-image-over-the-network/2550903 "2023-08-18T19:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/sending-image-over-the-network/2550903/2 "2023-08-21T13:58:32Z")

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Hello @fifdee welcome to the community.  
You can use Web Viewer and HTML code to convert the image file to base64 and then send it through the API.  
More information can be found here:

> [@WEB API Firebase Storage It does not upload the file to the server](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-api-firebase-storage-it-does-not-upload-the-file-to-the-server/2369895/4):
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> Hello @whiterabbitstudio202 I’ve already created an app that uses the API Block to send an image file. I used Web Viewer and HTML code to convert the image file to base64 and then send it through the API. This is the code for HTML: \<!DOCTYPE html\> \<html\> \<body style="background-color:#18A2EB;"\> \<head\> \<meta charset="UTF-8" /\> \<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /\> \<title\>Convert local file to Base64\</title\> \<script src="https://thunkab…

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