What is the media_urls request parameter in the REST API meant for?

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  philec · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 1:04 pm

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  Could someone explain what media_urls is supposed to be for?

  https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1/post/sites/%24site/media/new/

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  jackiedana · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 4:21 pm

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  philec · Member · Jun 11, 2014 at 4:29 pm

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  Ok, I made a typo, media_urls are just uri’s to media files that wordpress will happily import when you supply them:

  curl --form "media_urls[]=http://your_domain/image.jpg" -H "authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" "https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/${SITEID}/media/new"