Video from remote source

[Jack-JohnC]

In TwitterOAuth.php line 269 total_bytes pulls the file source locally using filesize($parameters['media']) but doesn't allow from remote sources such as a CDN without first copying the file locally.

If you allow a parameter of total_bytes, the file can be pulled from a remote source just by posting the file size in bytes.

Current: 'total_bytes' => filesize($parameters['media'])

New: 'total_bytes' => isset($parameters['total_bytes']) ? $parameters['total_bytes'] : filesize($parameters['media'])

If you want to take it further you can add in the remote file size in the API and do it automatically by specifying a remote file parameter.

    $videoUrl = 'some remote url';
    $ch = curl_init($videoUrl);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
    curl_exec($ch);
    $sizeBytes = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD);
    curl_close($ch);

Where $sizeBytes is total_bytes

[abraham]

I'm not sure how this is useful. The media file has to be uploaded directly to Twitter so the file will have to be local on this server regardless.

[Jack-JohnC]

I am able to upload to Twitter from a CDN without saving the file locally, but with filesize() it can't get the remote file in bytes and crashes. If I specify total_bytes with that command it lets me push the file from the cdn to Twitter.

[abraham]

How are you doing that? Reading POST media/upload the API requires either media or media_data, both of which are the media file, not a URL a remote file.

[Jack-JohnC]

Ok, this is an example of a video on Facebook that I can upload to Twitter:

https://video.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/13082813_1713203562273609_1934355959_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjY3MywicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoidjNfNDI2X2NyZl8yM19tYWluXzMuMF9zZCJ9&rl=673&vabr=374&oh=7f7cc395ce6021220ebf4e73ff67483f&oe=57290492

The url is an mp4 file.

[abraham]

But how do you upload it to twitter?

[Jack-JohnC]

Say the $videoUrl is the URL I posted:

use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;

$twitter = $this->load_twitter();
$twitter->setTimeouts(60, 30);
$video = $twitter->upload('media/upload', ['media' => $videoUrl,'total_bytes' => '123456','media_type' => 'video/mp4'],true);
$parameters = [
    'status' => 'A video upload example',
    'media_ids' => $video->media_id_string,
];
$twitter->post('statuses/update', $parameters);

[abraham]

Ah, I see what's happening. Twitter is not fetching the remote URL, fopen if fetching it within the TwitterOAuth code and then uploading it to Twitter. You should be downloading the file within your own code and passing a path to the TwitterOAuth upload method as documented.

I'm leaving this issue open as a task to remove unintended URL support from the upload method.

[abraham]

This might end up being a feature of #681

[sanjeev1994tiwari]

this pakage is simple and easy to implement...
but i have one issue while uploading remote ( s3 file ) and gives error "filesize(): stat failed for "...
i can understand why error arise..because of s3 file url are not local path....
pls help what we do for remote url...

my code is :
$video = s3url
$media1 = $connection->upload('media/upload', ['media' => $video, 'media_type' => 'video/mp4'],true);
$parameters = [
'status' => 'video',
'media_ids' => implode(',', [$media1->media_id_string])
];
$result = $connection->post('statuses/update', $parameters);

[abraham]

You'll have to download the file first. There are several approaches you can use to accomplish this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3938534/download-file-to-server-from-url