# Upload a live photo

### URL

<mark style="color:green;">**POST**</mark> `https://api.complycube.com/v1/livePhotos`

Uploads a new live photo.\
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The live photo image must be either in **JPG** or **PNG** format. The size must be between **34 KB** and **4 MB**.

### Headers

<table><thead><tr><th width="281">Name</th><th width="96">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>Content-Type</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The content-type must always be set to <code>application/json</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>Authorization</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The API <strong><code>live</code></strong> or <strong><code>test</code></strong> key.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Body

<table><thead><tr><th width="281">Name</th><th width="96">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>clientId</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The ID of the client associated with this live photo.</td></tr><tr><td><code>data</code><mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>string</td><td>The <code>BASE64</code> encoded data.</td></tr><tr><td><code>performLivenessCheck</code></td><td>boolean</td><td>Indicates if a liveness check should be performed on a live photo upload. When not provided, this defaults to <strong>true</strong>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Example request

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.complycube.com/v1/livePhotos \
     -H 'Authorization: <YOUR_API_KEY>' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
               "clientId":"5eb1276d96be4a0008713af5",
               "data": "<BASE64_CONTENT>"
        }'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Node.js" %}

```javascript
const { ComplyCube } = require("@complycube/api");

const complycube = new ComplyCube({ apiKey: "<YOUR_API_KEY>" });

await complycube.livePhoto.upload("CLIENT_ID", {
    data: "<BASE64_CONTENT>"
});
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
from complycube import ComplyCubeClient

cc_api = ComplyCubeClient(api_key='<YOUR_API_KEY>')

live_photo = cc_api.livephotos.upload('CLIENT_ID', {
    'data': '<BASE64_CONTENT>'
})
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
use ComplyCube\ComplyCubeClient;

$ccapi = new ComplyCubeClient('<YOUR_API_KEY>');

$livephoto = $ccapi->livephotos()->upload('CLIENT_ID', [
    'data' => '<BASE64_CONTENT>'
]);
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}

```csharp
using ComplyCube.Net;
using ComplyCube.Net.Resources.LivePhotos;

var livePhotoApi = new LivePhotoApi(new ComplyCubeClient("<YOUR_API_KEY>"));

var livePhotoRequest = new LivePhotoRequest {
  clientId = "CLIENT_ID",
  data = "<BASE64_CONTENT>"
};

var livePhoto = await livePhotoApi.UploadAsync(livePhotoRequest);
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Example responses

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Success (200)" %}

```json
{
    "id": "5eb1b5f231778a0008d1c3f6",
    "clientId": "5eb1276d96be4a0008713af5",
    "downloadLink": "/livePhotos/5eb1b5f231778a0008d1c3f6/download",
    "contentType": "image/jpeg",
    "performLivenessCheck": true,
    "size": 44896,
    "createdAt": "2020-01-01T14:06:44.756Z",
    "updatedAt": "2020-01-01T14:06:44.756Z"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Invalid Request (400)" %}

```json
{
    "type": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Image file size should be between 34KB and 4MB",
    "param": "data"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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