REST API not updating image link

Okay so an update to this issue I am running into;

I can modify image name, and altname via the postman PUT command. I have been succesfull in updating various other arrays too. The only thing at this point not working is updating the image “src” link. Whenever I drop a paypload it will update all fields fine, just not the image “src” ones. It gives status 200, so no errors.

Unless there is another way this should be done..simply dropping the files in with FTP clearly doesnt work to bulk replace images, and linking each image separately by hand is not an option with over 4000 products to update. My idea was to have a little script in my database program crawl trough each product and just update the image source link in woocommerce by using the REST API to link to the new image ( image is present on the server, accesible via http), and hoped that woocommerce would be able to pick that up.. but this seems to be impossible too. Also failing to add a second picture by just uploading the “src” imagelink without imageID (from what I gather it should then create a second image)
I have tried to find more correct methods of mass updating images in woocommerce, but have been unsucessfull in finding somethhing that works for us.

Hi Mirko,

Thank you for the suggestion. I must have made a typo when redacting the link, but I can confirm that I have been doing the put request with the correct double quote..

         "images": [
        {
            "id": 20435,
            "date_created": "2021-06-30T13:02:27",
            "date_created_gmt": "2021-06-30T13:02:27",
            "date_modified": "2021-07-11T13:14:19",
            "date_modified_gmt": "2021-07-11T13:14:19",
            "src": "https://www.https://samsup.com/images/0260101.jpg",
            "name": "test",
            "alt": "test "}],

it returns:

"images": [
        {
            "id": 20435,
            "date_created": "2021-06-30T13:02:27",
            "date_created_gmt": "2021-06-30T13:02:27",
            "date_modified": "2022-05-05T17:32:26",
            "date_modified_gmt": "2022-05-05T17:32:26",
            "src": "https://www.samsup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/0260101.jpg",
            "name": "test",
            "alt": "test"
        }
    ],

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Hello,

Yes thank you all for the information and help. The result is different than expected at first, but essentially it all works. It would be good to explain the mechanics of images a bit more deeply in the API documentation maybe, as I would imagine more people are strugling to grasp how the library does its magic.

But long story short, picture update via API works, however the JSON response is not going to be the image link ( which is what I expected) but it is rather going to be the newly created imagelink in the medialibrary.

The only thing that I could not get to work is to update an image ( overwrite in the library) using the imageID, so I am stuck at just creating new images, but perhaps that is not thet intended fuction of the API ( hence it would be good to more deeply explain the documentation here).

As for creating endless duplicates, it is not optimal, but easily manageable with a plugin that sanitizes unused images.

so on my end, I was able to do everything I needed to do!