uppy/website/src/docs/plugins.md

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title: "List & Common Options" type: docs permalink: docs/plugins/

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Plugins are what makes Uppy useful: they help select, manipulate and upload files.

• Acquirers (various ways of picking files):
  • Dashboard — full featured sleek UI with file previews, metadata editing, upload/pause/resume/cancel buttons and more. Includes StatusBar and Informer plugins by default
  • DragDrop — plain and simple drag and drop area
  • FileInput — even more plain and simple, just a button
  • Provider Plugins (remote sources that work through Uppy Server): Instagram, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, Url (direct link)
  • Webcam — upload selfies or audio / video recordings
• Uploaders:
  • Tus — uploads using the tus resumable upload protocol
  • XHRUpload — classic multipart form uploads or binary uploads using XMLHTTPRequest
  • AwsS3 — uploader for AWS S3
• Progress:
  • ProgressBar — add a small YouTube-style progress bar at the top of the page
  • StatusBar — advanced upload progress status bar
  • Informer — show notifications
• Helpers:
  • GoldenRetriever — restore files and continue uploading after a page refresh or a browser crash
  • Form — collect metadata from <form> right before Uppy upload, then optionally append results back to the form
• Encoding Services:
  • Transloadit — manipulate and transcode uploaded files using the transloadit.com service

Common Options

Each plugin can have any number of options (please see specific plugin for details), but these are shared between some:

id

A unique string identifying the plugin. By default, the plugin's name is used, so usually it does not need to be configured manually. Use this if you need to add multiple plugins of the same type.

target

Can be a string CSS selector, a DOM element, or a Plugin class. Consider the following example, where DragDrop plugin will be rendered into a body element:

const Uppy = require('uppy/lib/core')
const DragDrop = require('uppy/lib/plugins/DragDrop')
const uppy = Uppy()
uppy.use(DragDrop, { target: 'body' })
// or: uppy.use(DragDrop, { target: document.body })

While in this one, we are using the Dashboard plugin, which can act as a host target for other plugins:

const Uppy = require('uppy/lib/core')
const DragDrop = require('uppy/lib/plugins/Dashboard')
const GoogleDrive = require('uppy/lib/plugins/GoogleDrive')
const uppy = Uppy()
uppy.use(Dashboard, {
  trigger: '#uppyModalOpener'
})
uppy.use(GoogleDrive, {target: Dashboard})

In the example above the Dashboard gets rendered into an element with ID uppy, while GoogleDrive is rendered into the Dashboard itself.

endpoint

Used by uploader plugins, such as Tus and XHRUpload. Expects a string with a url that will be used for file uploading.

host

Used by remote provider plugins, such as Google Drive, Instagram or Dropbox. Specifies the url to your running uppy-server. This allows uppy to know what server to connect to when server related operations are required by the provider plugin.

// for Google Drive
const GoogleDrive = require('uppy/lib/plugins/GoogleDrive')
uppy.use(GoogleDrive, {target: Dashboard, host: 'http://localhost:3020'})

replaceTargetContent: false

By default Uppy will append any UI to a DOM element, if such element is specified as a target. This default is the least dangerous option. However, there might be cases when you’d want to clear the container element before placing Uppy UI in there (for example, to provide a fallback <form> that will be shown if Uppy or JavaScript is not loaded/supported on the page). Set replaceTargetContent: true to clear the target before appending.

locale: {}

Same as with Uppy.Core’s setting from above, this allows you to override plugin’s locale string, so that instead of Select files in English, your users will see Выберите файлы in Russian. Example:

.use(FileInput, {
  target: 'body',
  locale: {
    strings: { selectToUpload: 'Выберите файл для загрузки' }
  }
})

See plugin documentation pages for other plugin-specific options.

Provider Plugins

The Provider plugins help you connect to your accounts with remote file providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Instagram and remote urls (import a file by pasting a direct link to it). Because this requires server to server communication, they work tightly with uppy-server to manage the server to server authorization for your account. Virtually most of the communication (file download/upload) is done on the server-to-server end, so this saves you the stress of data consumption on the client.

As of now, the supported providers are Dropbox, GoogleDrive, Instagram, and Url.

Usage of the Provider plugins is not that different from any other acquirer plugin, except that it takes an extra option host, which specifies the url to your running uppy-server. This allows Uppy to know what server to connect to when server related operations are required by the provider plugin. Here's a quick example.

const Uppy = require('uppy/lib/core')
const Dashboard = require('uppy/lib/plugins/Dashboard')
const uppy = Uppy()
uppy.use(Dashboard, {
  trigger: '#pick-files'
})

// for Google Drive
const GoogleDrive = require('uppy/lib/plugins/GoogleDrive')
uppy.use(GoogleDrive, {target: Dashboard, host: 'http://localhost:3020'})

// for Dropbox
const Dropbox = require('uppy/lib/plugins/Dropbox')
uppy.use(Dropbox, {target: Dashboard, host: 'http://localhost:3020'})

// for Instagram
const Instagram = require('uppy/lib/plugins/Instagram')
uppy.use(Instagram, {target: Dashboard, host: 'http://localhost:3020'})

// for Url
const Url = require('uppy/lib/plugins/Url')
uppy.use(Url, {target: Dashboard, host: 'http://localhost:3020'})