---
title: "Create an asset from a URL"
method: POST
path: "/v1/assets/remote"
tags: ["Assets"]
---

# Create an asset from a URL

`POST /v1/assets/remote`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api`
- URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api/v1/assets/remote`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Requires an API key with the `avatars:write` scope.

## Request body

- CreateRemoteAssetRequest
  - `kind` 'image' | 'video' | 'audio', required
  - `remoteUrl` string, uri, required
  - `originalFilename` string
  - `metadata` object

## Response `201`

Created

- Asset
  - `id` string, required
  - `tenantId` string, required
  - `kind` 'image' | 'video' | 'audio', required
  - `status` 'pending_upload' | 'uploaded' | 'processing' | 'ready' | 'failed' | 'deleted', required
  - `contentType` string, required
  - `sizeBytes` integer, required
  - `sha256` string, nullable, required
  - `publicUrl` string, uri, nullable, required
  - `createdAt` string, required
  - `updatedAt` string, required

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing, malformed, revoked, or expired key.
- `403`: The key lacks the scope for this operation, or the tenant is not active.
- `default`: Error. Route-dependent: 400 (a field this route cannot honour — see `portraitUrl` on `UpdateAvatarRequest`), 402 (insufficient credits or spend limit), 404 (no such avatar, voice, or key for this tenant — the message often reads "does not belong to this tenant", which is a missing id and not a permission failure), 408 (the request was cancelled), 409 (the resource is not in a state that accepts this write — a stale `expectedRevision`, a render already in flight, or a mint that asked for a clip library still building), 411 (`POST /v1/assets/remote` only — the origin serving `remoteUrl` sent no `content-length`, so the platform will not stream it), 422 (strict schema rejection, or a motion description the safety screen refused), 429 (rate limited), 502 (upstream render failed), 503 (a dependency this route needs is unavailable — retryable, and nothing was written), 504 (the upstream request budget expired), 500 (unhandled). Switch on `code` where present, else `status`.

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