Hey folks, I am trying to use net/http and net/https to implement a
specific POST call for youtube’s video upload service (am trying to use
the direct upload API) and am looking to confirm that I am implementing
the net/http library properly to do this. The full POST call is as
follows (this comes from the youtube API):
POST /feeds/api/users/default/uploads HTTP/1.1
Host: uploads.gdata.youtube.com
Authorization: ClientLogin auth=my_auth_token_here
X-GData-Key: key=my_dev_id_here
Slug: videofilename.mpg
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=“f93dcbA3”
Content-Length: 1941255
Connection: close
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Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8
<entry
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_entry
xmlns=“Atom Syndication Format namespace”
xmlns:media=“http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/”
xmlns:yt=“http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007”>
<media:group
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_media:group>
<media:title
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_media:title
type=“plain”>My Video Title Here</media:title>
<media:description
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_media:description
type=“plain”>
My Video Description Here
</media:description>
<media:category
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_media:category
scheme=“http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat”>People
</media:category>
<media:keywords
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#youtube_data_api_tag_media:keywords>cat_keyword1,
cat_keyword2</media:keywords>
</media:group>
–f93dcbA3
Content-Type: video/mp4
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
full_video_file_binary_contents_here
–f93dcbA3–
Here is the code I am using to implement this, am hoping to make sure
that I am using net/http correctly to pass all of the data where it
needs to be.
dev_id = ‘my_YT_dev_id_here’
upload_host = ‘uploads.gdata.youtube.com’
upload_path = ‘/feeds/api/users/my_username_here/uploads’
youtube_direct_upload( upload_host, upload_path, dev_id, video )
def youtube_direct_upload( host, path, dev_id, token, video )
data = <<“DATA”
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Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8
media:group
<media:title type=“plain”>My Video Test</media:title>
<media:description type=“plain”>
Video Upload Test
</media:description>
<media:category
scheme=“http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat”>People
</media:category>
media:keywordstest, video</media:keywords>
</media:group>
–f93dcbA3
Content-Type: video/mpg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
#{video}
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DATA
http = Net::HTTP.new( host, 443 )
http.use_ssl = true
headers = {
‘Host’ => “#{host}”,
‘Authorization’ => “GoogleLogin auth=#{token}”,
‘X-GData-Key’ => “key=#{dev_id}”,
‘Slug’ => ‘videofile.mpg’,
‘Content-Type’ => ‘multipart/related; boundary=“f93dcbA3”’,
‘Content-Length’ => data.length.to_s,
‘Connection’ => ‘close’
}
resp, data = http.post( path, data, headers )
puts 'Code: ’ + resp.code
puts 'Data: ’
puts data
end
I left out the code which rerieves the auth_token from the youtube
server as I have tested that aspect and it works fine, only having
trouble getting the above to work, when I try it I get this string of
errors:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/buffering.rb:178:in syswrite': Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/buffering.rb:178:in do_write’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/buffering.rb:192:in write' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:175:in write0’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:151:in write' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:166:in writing’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:150:in write' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1514:in send_request_with_body’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1496:in exec' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1044:in request’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1033:in request' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:545:in start’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1031:in request' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:840:in post’
from youtube_auth.rb:95:in `youtube_direct_upload’
I am hoping that I have simply implemented the net/http library
incorrectly, but am not sure… Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Andy