Uploading video to old Facebook REST API - php

Question

I'm having lots of issues with uploading videos.
If I try to use https://api-video.facebook.com I am getting a cURL host not found error, if I use http://api-video.facebook.com I get a message to use https://api-video.facebook.com
If I try to use https://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=video.upload I get a 101 error code -
<error_msg>Invalid API key</error_msg>
but the API key works for everything else, statuses, comments, likes, fql for the user?
Heres what I am sending:
access_token=XXXX
api_key=XXXX
call_id=1279204007.6003
description=Description+of+this%3F
format=JSON
title=Title%2C+a+title
v=2.0
sig=XXX
I read in the post on the FB developers forum that splitting the session key by | gives you a correct session key? Is this the same as access_token? I have tried splitting this up with no luck.
Any ideas, or even working code in PHP (!) would be most welcome! Thanks

Answer 1

Try using this code with the FB SDK
require_once 'facebook.php';
$appapikey = 'xxx';
$appsecret = 'xxx';
$facebook = new Facebook($appapikey, $appsecret);
$session_key = 'xxx'; //this is the infinite session_key returned when asking for the offline_access extended permission
$args = array(
'method' => 'facebook.video.upload',
'v' => '1.0',
'api_key' => $appapikey,
'call_id' => microtime(true),
'format' => 'JSON',
'session_key' => $session_key,
'title' => 'My video title',
'description' => 'My video description'
);
ksort($args);
$sig = '';
foreach($args as $k => $v) {
$sig .= $k . '=' . $v;
}
$sig .= $appsecret;
$args['sig'] = md5($sig);
$args["short.wmv"] = '#E:\path\to\short.wmv';
$ch = curl_init();
$url = 'http://api-video.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.video.upload';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($data); //returned xml here
I also found a bug report submitted today stating that video uploads have been working and not working sporatically. It could be your code is just fine and facebook's APIs are messing up.
EDIT:
Try the following, it seems to have worked for a few people.