chunked video upload?

[tvierb]

Hi,

is it possible to do a chunked video upload with upload_media()? Is this supported?
I neither found it in the docs nor in the source (searching for "video" "segmented" "chunk").

thanks
tvierb

[semifor]

Hi @tvierb,

I had actually never tried a chunked upload before. Your question prompted me to do it. I'm not sure chunked upload was available when I initially wrote the upload_media support. You have to make multiple upload_media calls with commands INIT, APPEND, FINALIZE, and STATUS. That final call, with the current code, is a bit more verbose because upload_media is defined as a POST while the STATUS command requires a GET request.

I successfully uploaded a large video with this code: chunked-media-upload.pl. (Well, the upload itself was successful, but Twitter rejected it because it was over the maximum time limit. Nonetheless, I got a good, final STATUS response so I'm confident the example code works.)

It's likely not optimum, but it's the first working draft. For some reason, I couldn't get the media parameter working with raw, binary data for the APPEND command. I resorted to base64 encoded data using the media_data parameter instead.

I relied on Twitter's chunked media upload documentation and the @twitterdev python example.

I'll likely add a more refined version of this in examples in an upcoming release.