How to send a video as a direct?

[qm3ster]

Henlo, trying to make a DM out of an mp4.

Based on what I found here:

instagram-private-api/src/entities/direct-thread.entity.ts

Lines 50 to 62 in d5fc6a7

	public async broadcastPhoto(options: DirectThreadBroadcastPhotoOptions) {
	const { upload_id } = await this.client.upload.photo({
	uploadId: options.uploadId,
	file: options.file,
	});
	return await this.broadcast({
	item: 'configure_photo',
	form: {
	allow_full_aspect_ratio: options.allowFullAspectRatio || true,
	upload_id,
	},
	});
	}

I tried:

    const vidUp = await ig.upload.video({
      video: await fs.readFile(
        path.resolve(__dirname, "../data/SampleVideo_1280x720_1mb.mp4")
      ),
      duration: 5312,
      height: 720,
      width: 1280
    })
    console.log("vidUp", vidUp)

The video upload process returns: vidUp { xsharing_nonces: {}, status: 'ok' } (no upload_id in response body)

I based configure_video not just on similarity, but also these lines from mgp25/Instagram-API (see URL).

Not sure what video_result there stands for.

It's strange I am not getting an upload_id back despite the 'ok', it seems to be expected.

I also tried this:

    const uploadId = "1568498701788"
    const vidUp = await ig.upload.video({
      uploadId,
      video: await fs.readFile(
        path.resolve(__dirname, "../data/SampleVideo_1280x720_1mb.mp4")
      ),
      duration: 5312,
      height: 720,
      width: 1280
    })
    console.log("vidUp", vidUp)
    console.log("uploadId", uploadId)
    const res = await ig.directThread.broadcast({
      item: "configure_video",
      form: {
        upload_id: uploadId
      },
      threadIds: "340282366841710300949128112692906930936"
    })

which is probably stupid since the ID I should get back is probably different than the option ID. (I didn't check in the photo case, but the current code uses the returned one.)
Anyway, this gives 403 Forbidden (probably because I am referencing someone else's or nonexistent video upload).

[Nerixyz]

Should be available in the latest version:

await DirectThreadEntity.broadcastVideo({
      video: await readFileAsync(PATH_TO_FILE),
});