Upload files from a URL (Transloading/External Upload)

I support this feature. The ability to enter a URL into a filefield would be very useful for users and module developers.
I have a module I would like to integrate with filefield and it would need the ability to accept URLs. I believe this is known as Transloading.

I'm requesting this feature as well.

supporting the request.

+1

+1

take a look at something like mediamover

Even just a way to change the LINK of a file - I have a client that has a server with an 8MB upload limit. When we have large files we need to upload, I have to upload a dummy file and then go in and replace the file via FTP. It would at least make sense to be able to just push a link in that would point directly to the file without having to go through the upload form. subscribing

MediaMover does not fit our requirements.

I am looking at creating an RSS aggregation site using FeedAPI. Some of the feeds I use include images but I don't want to hot link the images from someone else's server I plan to create a module that feeds the images address into FileField where they would be stored on the server. This way if I don't like an image I could edit the node and upload my own.

There are also other situations where I want to upload a file not from my hard disk but from a third party server.

there's are several duplicate feature requests for this for emfield. the current related active issues are at #203085: Patch-Attempt and #300006: Update emthumb to work with Drupal 6 / CCK 2.

Aaron, are you in support of this feature for FileField? Because http://drupal.org/node/300006 seems to be a really good use case. If so I'd like to see if Drewish would consider setting this to "active" again.

See the Media project: that will do what you want. Hopefully slated for release at DCDC; you're welcome to join its team at the Media Sprint.

Awesome work, that looks really good.

Also check out FieldField Sources. It does exactly what you need.

Thanks for recommending FileField Sources joelstein - totally perfect!

If you need to do any batch transloading and are using Feeds, check out this patch. It'll let you map File/ImageFields using the Feeds module, which saved me a good little bit of time when I was doing some large imports of pictures from external URLs.