Introduction

Introduction

This document will help you integrate S3Uploader.

Overview

What is S3Uploader?

The hosted version of S3Uploader is an embedded Javascript plugin thats allows the uploading of files of unlimited file size directly to an Amazon S3 bucket without the need for complex programming.

How does it work?

Your Amazon credentials are set from within your account, including the Amazon bucket you wish to upload to. Once you have configured your settings, you can create an uploader and embed it into your site.

Once the S3Uploader Javascript is embedded into your site, a ready to use uploader is rendered on page load.

S3Uploader automatically handles all necessary steps to upload a file from the users device to your Amazon S3 bucket. It also determines the best required action in uploading a file, depending on the size of the file and the users device, whether it be a single-part upload for smaller files or multipart upload for large files.

To upload large files, it has the ability to split the file into smaller manageable "chunks" so that it can upload files much bigger than what an internet browser or flash player can handle, which is typically under 5GB.

Who can use S3Uploader?

S3Uploader is designed for users who do not have the technical understand or programming skills to develop their own multipart uploader.

We provide a basic level of customisation and callbacks to make it easy to integrate into your own system.