Create File versions from Apex
In Lightning Experience, Salesforce Files unifies your files, documents, and libraries into a single place for easier management. Files can be created from different places like Lightning Components, LWC and integrations i.e. via apex. In majority scenarios, the requirement is around creating a file and associating it with some sObject record. Below script can be to create a file in Salesforce. HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest () ; req.setEndpoint ( 'https://images.pexels.com/photos/2052217/pexels-photo-2052217.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=1&w=500' ) ; req.setMethod ( 'GET' ) ; HttpResponse res = new Http () .send ( req ) ; if ( res ! = null ) { Blob imageBlob = res.getBodyAsBlob () ; String fileName = 'Ssshhh' ; // Creates the contentversion and implicitly creates content document ContentVersion cv = new ContentVersion () ; cv.Title = fileName; cv.PathOnClient = fileName