update uploadFile method to accept buffer

[moonway-dev]

Description of the feature request:

Please make uploadFile able to accept buffer or url, uploading from a local machine is very limiting.

What problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

This will help loading files in Express JS or Spring Boot

Any other information you'd like to share?

No response

[tanaikech]

How about this script? This Node.js script demonstrates how to implement resumable uploads using streams with various APIs, such as Gemini, Drive, YouTube, and more. It supports uploading files from both local paths and remote URLs. I originally created this for use with Gemini API and remote file URLs. I hope you find it helpful.

https://github.com/tanaikech/resumableUploadForGoogleAPIs_nodejs

Or, https://stackoverflow.com/a/78873910

[luisiacc]

I think this would be a very simple change that allows all ways to upload files. To use this in production I'm having to create a temporary file from the buffer and then passing the temporary file path on to the function, which is not good at all, if they are big files and there are a lot of concurrent ones, the storage could get filled quickly.

[luisiacc]

Even better if you the gemini endpoint can accept a url to upload the file, that way we don't even have to keep the buffer in memory, we can just upload something like an s3 presigned url.

[thorwebdev]

Agreed, imagine a environment where the isn't any fs, I'd just like to pass in a publicly accessible URI!