Upload file from buffer using upload service

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Hello everyone,

I’m getting the profile picture of users who authenticate via third party provider and upload the image to Strapi using the REST API. But I would prefer using the upload service instead of the REST API, as I don’t want to give public users permission to upload. How can I do this in V4?

Here is my current implementation using REST:

module.exports = {
    beforeCreate(event) {

        console.log(strapi)

        const axios = require("axios");
        const FormData = require('form-data');

        if (event.params.provider !== "local") {
            try {
                const img = event.params.data.profile_picture_social;

                async function fetchAndUploadSocialImage(img) {
                    const response = await axios.get(img, {responseType: "arraybuffer"});

                    const form = new FormData();
                    form.append("files", response.data, `useravatar-${event.params.data.username}.jpg`)

                    // How do I upload using upload service?
                    const upload = await axios.post(`${process.env.API_URL}/api/upload`, form).catch((error)=> {
                        console.log(error.response.data.error)
                    })
                }
                fetchAndUploadSocialImage(img);
            } catch (error) {
                console.log(error)
            }
        }
    },
}

I’ve already read through some posts but they’re all outdated and for V3, sadly.

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