Upload video to Youtube using Youtube API V3 and PHP - php

Question

I am trying to upload a video to Youtube using PHP. I am using Youtube API v3 and I am using the latest checked out source code of Google API PHP Client library.
I am using the sample code given on
https://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/ to perform the authentication. The authentication goes through fine but when I try to upload a video I get Google_ServiceException with error code 500 and message as null.
I had a look at the following question asked earlier:
Upload video to youtube using php client library v3 But the accepted answer doesn't describe how to specify file data to be uploaded.
I found another similar question Uploading file with Youtube API v3 and PHP, where in the comment it is mentioned that categoryId is mandatory, hence I tried setting the categoryId in the snippet but still it gives the same exception.
I also referred to the Python code on the the documentation site ( https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/insert ), but I couldn't find the function next_chunk in the client library. But I tried to put a loop (mentioned in the code snippet) to retry on getting error code 500, but in all 10 iterations I get the same error.
Following is the code snippet I am trying:
$youTubeService = new Google_YoutubeService($client);
if ($client->getAccessToken()) {
print "Successfully authenticated";
$snippet = new Google_VideoSnippet();
$snippet->setTitle = "My Demo title";
$snippet->setDescription = "My Demo descrition";
$snippet->setTags = array("tag1","tag2");
$snippet->setCategoryId(23); // this was added later after refering to another question on stackoverflow
$status = new Google_VideoStatus();
$status->privacyStatus = "private";
$video = new Google_Video();
$video->setSnippet($snippet);
$video->setStatus($status);
$data = file_get_contents("video.mp4"); // This file is present in the same directory as the code
$mediaUpload = new Google_MediaFileUpload("video/mp4",$data);
$error = true;
$i = 0;
// I added this loop because on the sample python code on the documentation page
// mentions we should retry if we get error codes 500,502,503,504
$retryErrorCodes = array(500, 502, 503, 504);
while($i < 10 && $error) {
try{
$ret = $youTubeService->videos->insert("status,snippet",
$video,
array("data" => $data));
// tried the following as well, but even this returns error code 500,
// $ret = $youTubeService->videos->insert("status,snippet",
// $video,
// array("mediaUpload" => $mediaUpload);
$error = false;
} catch(Google_ServiceException $e) {
print "Caught Google service Exception ".$e->getCode()
. " message is ".$e->getMessage();
if(!in_array($e->getCode(), $retryErrorCodes)){
break;
}
$i++;
}
}
print "Return value is ".print_r($ret,true);
// We're not done yet. Remember to update the cached access token.
// Remember to replace $_SESSION with a real database or memcached.
$_SESSION['token'] = $client->getAccessToken();
} else {
$authUrl = $client->createAuthUrl();
print "<a href='$authUrl'>Connect Me!</a>";
}
Is it something that I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was able to get the upload working using the following code:
if($client->getAccessToken()) {
$snippet = new Google_VideoSnippet();
$snippet->setTitle("Test title");
$snippet->setDescription("Test descrition");
$snippet->setTags(array("tag1","tag2"));
$snippet->setCategoryId("22");
$status = new Google_VideoStatus();
$status->privacyStatus = "private";
$video = new Google_Video();
$video->setSnippet($snippet);
$video->setStatus($status);
$error = true;
$i = 0;
try {
$obj = $youTubeService->videos->insert("status,snippet", $video,
array("data"=>file_get_contents("video.mp4"),
"mimeType" => "video/mp4"));
} catch(Google_ServiceException $e) {
print "Caught Google service Exception ".$e->getCode(). " message is ".$e->getMessage(). " <br>";
print "Stack trace is ".$e->getTraceAsString();
}
}

Answer 2

I realize this is old, but here's the answer off the documentation:
// REPLACE this value with the path to the file you are uploading.
$videoPath = "/path/to/file.mp4";
$snippet = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoSnippet();
$snippet->setTitle("Test title");
$snippet->setDescription("Test description");
$snippet->setTags(array("tag1", "tag2"));
// Numeric video category. See
// https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list
$snippet->setCategoryId("22");
// Set the video's status to "public". Valid statuses are "public",
// "private" and "unlisted".
$status = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoStatus();
$status->privacyStatus = "public";
// Associate the snippet and status objects with a new video resource.
$video = new Google_Service_YouTube_Video();
$video->setSnippet($snippet);
$video->setStatus($status);
// Specify the size of each chunk of data, in bytes. Set a higher value for
// reliable connection as fewer chunks lead to faster uploads. Set a lower
// value for better recovery on less reliable connections.
$chunkSizeBytes = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
// Setting the defer flag to true tells the client to return a request which can be called
// with ->execute(); instead of making the API call immediately.
$client->setDefer(true);
// Create a request for the API's videos.insert method to create and upload the video.
$insertRequest = $youtube->videos->insert("status,snippet", $video);
// Create a MediaFileUpload object for resumable uploads.
$media = new Google_Http_MediaFileUpload(
$client,
$insertRequest,
'video/*',
null,
true,
$chunkSizeBytes
);
$media->setFileSize(filesize($videoPath));
// Read the media file and upload it chunk by chunk.
$status = false;
$handle = fopen($videoPath, "rb");
while (!$status && !feof($handle)) {
$chunk = fread($handle, $chunkSizeBytes);
$status = $media->nextChunk($chunk);
}
fclose($handle);
// If you want to make other calls after the file upload, set setDefer back to false
$client->setDefer(false);

Answer 3

I also realize this is old, but as I cloned the latest version of php-client from GitHub I ran in to trouble with Google_Service_YouTube_Videos_Resource::insert()-method.
I would pass an array with "data" => file_get_contents($pathToVideo) and "mimeType" => "video/mp4" set as an argument for the insert()-method, but I still kept getting (400) BadRequest in return.
Debugging and reading through Google's code i found in \Google\Service\Resource.php there was a check (on lines 179-180) against an array key "uploadType" that would initiate the Google_Http_MediaFielUpload object.
$part = 'status,snippet';
$optParams = array(
"data" => file_get_contents($filename),
"uploadType" => "media", // This was needed in my case
"mimeType" => "video/mp4",
);
$response = $youtube->videos->insert($part, $video, $optParams);
If I remember correctly, with version 0.6 of the PHP-api the uploadType argument wasn't needed. This might apply only for the direct upload style and not the resumable upload shown in Any Day's answer.

Answer 4

The answer would be using Google_Http_MediaFileUpload through the Google PHP client libraries.
Here's the sample code: https://github.com/youtube/api-samples/blob/master/php/resumable_upload.php