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Updating Hipchat's room avatars
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Note: I wasn't (yet) able to get this to work, but adding here so maybe someone else gets further:
- get your host name for the API .. something like COMPANYNAME.hipchat.com
- create an oauth token for your user through the hipchat web UI, lets say it is OAUTHKEY with all permissions
- find an image you want to use for your room avatar and get the base64 encoded version using a tool like:
https://www.base64-image.de/
- save the image to with the below contents, let's say as avatar.json:
{ "avatar" : "base64encodinghere" }
- curl -v http://COMPANYNAME.hipchat.com/v2/room/ROOMNAME?auth_token=OAUTHKEY"
- you should get a json file that is the description of the room currently, and it shouldn't have a avatar_url field
- curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT --data @avatar.json "http://COMPANYNAME.hipchat.com/v2/room/ROOMNAME/avatar?auth_token=OAUTHKEY"
- you should get a 204 response
- curl -v http://COMPANYNAME.hipchat.com/v2/room/ROOMNAME?auth_token=OAUTHKEY"
- you should now see a avatar_url": "uploads.hipchat.com/photos/room_XXXXX/XXXXXX.png"
Now, if you look at that url, the image does exist. However, neither the web client nor macos client shows it in the UI.
@sigmasoldi3r
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sigmasoldi3r commented Sep 27, 2016 •
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Seems that we have to provide that descriptor, it gives me the following error (But seems near to be done!):

curl : { "error": { "code": 403, "message": "This action requires one of the following scopes: [u'view_group',
u'view_room']", "type": "Forbidden" } }
En línea: 1 Carácter: 1
+ curl -v https://argochamber.hipchat.com/v2/room/3138969?auth_token=cN ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
   eption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

Note that I'm using curl with Window's PowerShell, maybe under Linux works 💻

How nice would be to change Hipchat room's avatar. 💥 🌝

@andrewleith
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I managed to get this working by executing the following:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{ "avatar": "BASE64 Encoded Image here" }' http://SERVER_NAME_HERE.hipchat.com/v2/room/ROOM_NAME_HERE/avatar?auth_token=AUTH_TOKEN_HERE

I can verify that the image is there using GET /avatar (it returns a URL on amazon S3), but still, the image doesnt show up in the app (web, or desktop). Seems rather pointless.

@djkotowski
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I'm having the same issue as @andrewleith. I've confirmed the upload worked, but it doesn't appear anywhere.

@d0nn13
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d0nn13 commented Jan 19, 2017

Same here, upload (and rescaling by server) succeeds, but UIs (webapp, MacOS) do not display it.

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