diff --git a/docs/openapi.yaml b/docs/openapi.yaml
index 3291b80..33a5086 100644
--- a/docs/openapi.yaml
+++ b/docs/openapi.yaml
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ paths:
       description: |
         Creates a new file in your vault or updates the content of an existing one if the specified file already exists.
       requestBody:
-        description: file or Content of the file you would like to upload.
+        description: Content of the file you would like to upload.
         required: true
         content:
           'text/markdown':
@@ -358,13 +358,6 @@ paths:
                 # This is my document
 
                 something else here
-          'multipart/form-data':
-            schema:
-              type: object
-              example: |
-                {
-                  "file": [binary file object]
-                }
           '*/*':
             schema:
               type: string
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9b1d847..a63e297 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
     "@types/jest": "^27.4.0",
     "@types/json-logic-js": "^1.2.1",
     "@types/mime-types": "^2.1.1",
-    "@types/multer": "^1.4.11",
     "@types/node": "^16.11.6",
     "@types/node-forge": "^1.0.0",
     "@types/supertest": "^2.0.11",
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@
     "builtin-modules": "^3.2.0",
     "esbuild": "0.13.12",
     "jest": "^26",
-    "obsidian": "latest",
+    "obsidian": "https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/tarball/master",
     "supertest": "^6.2.2",
     "swagger-ui-cli": "^0.10.0",
     "ts-jest": "26.5.6",
@@ -46,7 +45,6 @@
     "matcher": "^5.0.0",
     "mime-types": "^2.1.35",
     "minimatch": "^5.0.1",
-    "multer": "^1.4.5-lts.1",
     "node-forge": "^1.2.1",
     "obsidian-daily-notes-interface": "^0.9.4",
     "obsidian-dataview": "^0.5.47",
diff --git a/src/requestHandler.test.ts b/src/requestHandler.test.ts
index 674e02c..85abdb2 100644
--- a/src/requestHandler.test.ts
+++ b/src/requestHandler.test.ts
@@ -226,18 +226,27 @@ describe("requestHandler", () => {
     test("acceptable binary content", async () => {
       const arbitraryFilePath = "test.png";
       const arbitraryBytes = "bytes"; // mock a picture binary
-      const file = Buffer.from(arbitraryBytes)
 
       await request(server)
         .put(`/vault/${arbitraryFilePath}`)
-        .set('Content-Type', 'multipart/form-data')
+        .set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
         .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${API_KEY}`)
-        .attach('file', file,arbitraryFilePath)
+        .send(arbitraryBytes)
         .expect(204);
 
-        expect(app.vault.adapter._writeBinary[0]).toEqual(arbitraryFilePath);
-        const data = app.vault.adapter._writeBinary[1];
-        expect(Buffer.isBuffer(data) || data instanceof ArrayBuffer).toEqual(true);
+      expect(app.vault.adapter._writeBinary[0]).toEqual(arbitraryFilePath);
+      const data = app.vault.adapter._writeBinary[1];
+      console.log(data);
+      expect(Buffer.isBuffer(data) || data instanceof ArrayBuffer).toEqual(
+        true
+      );
+      // We won't be able to convert the incoming data
+      // to bytes with this mechanism in a _normal_
+      // situation because those bytes won't be encodable
+      // as ASCII, but we can do this here because we're
+      // lying about the incoming content type above
+      const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+      expect(decoder.decode(data)).toEqual(arbitraryBytes);
     });
 
     test("non-bytes content", async () => {
diff --git a/src/requestHandler.ts b/src/requestHandler.ts
index 13bc385..e09ff43 100644
--- a/src/requestHandler.ts
+++ b/src/requestHandler.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ import {
   apiVersion,
   App,
   CachedMetadata,
-  Command, 
-  DataWriteOptions,
+  Command,
   PluginManifest,
   prepareSimpleSearch,
   TFile,
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ import responseTime from "response-time";
 import queryString from "query-string";
 import WildcardRegexp from "glob-to-regexp";
 import path from "path";
-import multer from 'multer'
 
 import {
   CannedResponse,
@@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ import {
   SearchJsonResponseItem,
   SearchResponseItem,
 } from "./types";
-import { findHeadingBoundary, getSplicePosition } from "./utils";
+import { findHeadingBoundary, getSplicePosition, toArrayBuffer } from "./utils";
 import {
   CERT_NAME,
   ContentTypes,
@@ -42,15 +40,6 @@ import {
   MaximumRequestSize,
 } from "./constants";
 
-function toArrayBuffer(arr: Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer | DataView): ArrayBufferLike {
-  if (arr instanceof Uint8Array) {
-    return arr.buffer;
-  }
-  if (arr instanceof DataView) {
-    return arr.buffer;
-  }
-  return arr;
-}
 export default class RequestHandler {
   app: App;
   api: express.Express;
@@ -287,18 +276,17 @@ export default class RequestHandler {
       // the folder/file already exists, but we don't care
     }
 
-    await this._adapterWrite(filepath,req.file?.buffer || req.body)
-    this.returnCannedResponse(res, { statusCode: 204 });
-    return;
-  }
-
-  async _adapterWrite(file: TFile | string, data: string | ArrayBuffer | Uint8Array, options?: DataWriteOptions) {
-    const path = file instanceof TFile ? file.path : file;
-    if (typeof (data) === "string") {
-      return this.app.vault.adapter.write(path, data, options)
+    if (typeof req.body === "string") {
+      await this.app.vault.adapter.write(filepath, req.body);
     } else {
-      return this.app.vault.adapter.writeBinary(path, toArrayBuffer(data), options)
+      await this.app.vault.adapter.writeBinary(
+        filepath,
+        toArrayBuffer(req.body)
+      );
     }
+
+    this.returnCannedResponse(res, { statusCode: 204 });
+    return;
   }
 
   async vaultPut(req: express.Request, res: express.Response): Promise<void> {
@@ -1046,14 +1034,10 @@ export default class RequestHandler {
       .post(this.activeFilePost.bind(this))
       .delete(this.activeFileDelete.bind(this));
 
-    const storage = multer.memoryStorage();
-    const upload = multer({
-      storage: storage
-    })
     this.api
       .route("/vault/(.*)")
       .get(this.vaultGet.bind(this))
-      .put([upload.single('file'),this.vaultPut.bind(this)])
+      .put(this.vaultPut.bind(this))
       .patch(this.vaultPatch.bind(this))
       .post(this.vaultPost.bind(this))
       .delete(this.vaultDelete.bind(this));
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 7ea04a1..4223658 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -60,3 +60,21 @@ export function getSplicePosition(
   }
   return splicePosition;
 }
+
+export function toArrayBuffer(
+  arr: Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer | DataView | object
+): ArrayBufferLike {
+  if (arr instanceof Uint8Array) {
+    return arr.buffer.slice(arr.byteOffset, arr.byteOffset + arr.byteLength);
+  }
+  if (arr instanceof DataView) {
+    return arr.buffer.slice(arr.byteOffset, arr.byteOffset + arr.byteLength);
+  }
+  if (arr instanceof ArrayBuffer) {
+    return arr;
+  }
+  // If we've made it this far, we probably have a
+  // parsed JSON object
+  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+  return encoder.encode(JSON.stringify(arr)).buffer;
+}