Vimeo API C# - Uploading a video - vimeo-api

Question

I'm following the api's guide about resumable uploads.
I managed to get a response after step 1 ("create the video"),
with a uri and a upload_link.
About the second part, things are not as clear.
It only says which headers should I sent, but there are two things I don't get,
first - where do I need to put the "upload_link"?
Should the call be like this:
/me/{upload_link}? (of course im also adding the access token, etc)
second, what about the actual file? I guess i should send it in the same method, but how? No word about it.
This is the code for the PATCH request:
public string UploadPatch(
string uploadlink,
string method)
{
var headers = new WebHeaderCollection()
{
{ "Tus-Resumable", "1.0.0" },
{ "Upload-Offest", "0" }
};
method = method.ToUpper();
string body = "";
string contentType = "application/offset+octet-stream";
return Helpers.HTTPUpload(uploadlink, method, headers, body, contentType);
}
And HTTPUpload():
public static string HTTPPatch(string url, string method,
WebHeaderCollection headers, string payload,
string contentType)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
if (Proxy != null) request.Proxy = Proxy;
request.Headers = headers;
request.Method = method;
request.Accept = "application/vnd.vimeo.*+json; version=3.1";
request.ContentType = contentType;
request.KeepAlive = false;
if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(payload))
{
var streamBytes = Helpers.ToByteArray(payload);
request.ContentLength = streamBytes.Length;
Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
reqStream.Write(streamBytes, 0, streamBytes.Length);
reqStream.Close();
}
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)(request.GetResponse());
Debug.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
var dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("Response from URL {0}:", url), "HTTPFetch");
Debug.WriteLine(responseFromServer, "HTTPFetch");
return responseFromServer;
}
Thanks

Answer 1

The upload_link is the URL where you upload the video to. In other words, make your call to the https://[...].cloud.vimeo.com/upload?[...] URL instead of the https://api.vimeo.com host that is used for other API requests.
Additionally, when you make a request to that cloud.vimeo.com upload_link, only provide the required headers as specified in the documentation.
https://developer.vimeo.com/api/upload/videos#resumable-approach

Answer 2

The code is VB.Net, but you can change to C#
'Imports / use these classes
'Imports System.Net
'Imports Newtonsoft.Json
'Imports System.IO
Protected Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Try
'Receive the video from File Upload
If Not IsNothing(fuVideo.PostedFile) Then
'You will need this for SSL
System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType.Tls Or (SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 Or SecurityProtocolType.Tls12))
'Path to save the video Save
Dim vFilePath As String = Server.MapPath("App_data/Videos")
Dim vFileNameAndPath As String = vFilePath & "/" & fuVideo.PostedFile.FileName
'Save Video
fuVideo.PostedFile.SaveAs(vFileNameAndPath)
'Get the size
Dim vSize As String = New FileInfo(vFileNameAndPath).Length()
'Vimeo URL
Dim vVimeURL As String = "https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos"
Dim wc As WebClient = New WebClient()
wc.Headers.Clear()
wc.Headers.Add("Authorization", "bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX") 'Use your App Code
wc.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
wc.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/vnd.vimeo.*+json;version=3.4")
wc.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
'txtName is a text box, so you can give a Title to the Video
Dim vData As String = "{ ""upload"": {""approach"": ""tus"",""size"": """ & vSize & """ }, ""name"" : """ & txtName.Text & """ }"
Dim vimeoTicket = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(wc.UploadString(vVimeURL, "POST", vData))
wc.Headers.Clear()
wc.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/offset+octet-stream")
wc.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/vnd.vimeo.*+json;version=3.4")
wc.Headers.Add("Tus-Resumable", "1.0.0")
wc.Headers.Add("Upload-Offset", "0")
Dim vupload_link As String = vimeoTicket("upload")("upload_link").Value 'Json from Vimeo has the upload_link
Dim vResponse As Byte() = wc.UploadFile(vupload_link, "PATCH", vFileNameAndPath)
Response.Write(System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(vResponse)) ' If everething is ok, vResponse is Nothing
End If
Catch ex As Exception
ltrErro.Text = "Error"
End Try
End Sub

Answer 3

for this may look at the sample code below:-
I am using a nuget library vimeo-dot-net also at https://github.com/mfilippov/vimeo-dot-net, this has a wrapper built around upload, delete etc.
public ActionResult UploadChapterVideoVimeo(HttpPostedFileBase file, string productID = "")
{
if (file != null){
var authCheck = Task.Run(async () => await vimeoClient.GetAccountInformationAsync()).Result;
if (authCheck.Name != null)
{
BinaryContent binaryContent = new BinaryContent(file.InputStream, file.ContentType);
int chunkSize = 0;
int contenetLength = file.ContentLength;
int temp1 = contenetLength / 1024;
if (temp1 > 1)
{
chunkSize = temp1 / 1024;
chunkSize = chunkSize * 1048576;
}
else
{ chunkSize = chunkSize * 1048576; }
binaryContent.OriginalFileName = file.FileName;
var d = Task.Run(async () => await vimeoClient.UploadEntireFileAsync(binaryContent, chunkSize, null)).Result;
vmodel.chapter_vimeo_url = "VIMEO-" + d.ClipUri;
}
return RedirectToAction("ProductBuilder", "Products", new { productId = EncryptedProductID, message = "Successfully Uploaded video", type = 1 });
}
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
return RedirectToAction("ProductBuilder", "Products", new { productId = EncryptedProductID, message = "Failed to Uploaded video " + exc.Message, type = 0 });
}
}
return null; }