---
title: "Create Multipart Media Upload"
method: POST
path: "/api/public/media/uploads/multipart"
tags: ["public", "media"]
---

# Create Multipart Media Upload

`POST /api/public/media/uploads/multipart`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.electricair.io` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.electricair.io/api/public/media/uploads/multipart`
- Auth: none declared

Create a media row and an S3 multipart upload session.

## Request body

- MediaUploadCreateRequest
  - `deal_id` string, required
  - `file_type` string, required
  - `tag` string, required
  - `original_filename` string, nullable
  - `media_type` 'video' | 'image'
  - `caption` string, nullable
  - `file_size_bytes` integer, nullable

## Response `200`

OK

- MultipartUploadCreateResponse
  - `media` MediaResponse, required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `deal_id` string, required
    - `tag` string, required
    - `s3_url` string, required
    - `s3_key` string, required
    - `upload_status` string
    - `is_playable` boolean
    - `created_at` string, required
    - `updated_at` string, required
    - `media_type` 'video' | 'image' | 'text', required
    - `caption` string, nullable
    - `original_filename` string, nullable
    - `content_type` string, nullable
    - `file_size_bytes` integer, nullable
    - `upload_error_code` string, nullable
    - `upload_error_message` string, nullable
    - `uploaded_at` string, nullable
    - `transcode_status` string
    - `transcoded_s3_key` string, nullable
    - `transcode_error_message` string, nullable
    - `playback_state` string
    - `lifecycle_state` 'pending_upload' | 'processing' | 'ready' | 'ready_degraded' | 'upload_failed' | 'canceled'
  - `upload_id` string, required
  - `part_size_bytes` integer, required

---

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