Vimeo::uploadImage() method doesn't seem to work

[mnori]

I have been trying to use the uploadImage() method to add a thumbnail to a video that has been uploaded, but not yet finished processing. I'm passing in these parameters:

uploadImage("https://api.vimeo.com/videos/{$videoID}", $filename);

When I do this, I get a VimeoUploadException with message 'Unable to request an upload url from vimeo'.

I looked a bit further by debuglogging the $pictures_response variable (which is set on line 356 of Vimeo.php) and got this:

[2014-09-05 12:26:01] local.DEBUG: Array
(
    [body] => 
    [status] => 0
    [headers] => Array
        (
        )

)

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Also is uploadImage intended to be used to upload video thumbnails? Is this expected to work for videos that have not yet finished processing?

Thanks!

Matt

[Dashron]

Have you been able to make other requests, such as $vimeo->request("/me")?

A status of 0 usually means the request never reached our server, which usually means there is an issue with certificates. Take a look at http://unitstep.net/blog/2009/05/05/using-curl-in-php-to-access-https-ssltls-protected-sites/ for more information, I do not recommend the easy fix (it's insecure).

If that doesn't solve the problem, try adding some curl debugging with http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-error.php

[Dashron]

Hi,

Have you made any progress with this issue?

Thanks!

[mnori]

Hi,

I tried $vimeo->request("/me") which worked great (got some details about my profile).

I then discovered that I was setting $pictures_uri in uploadImage() wrong - I had set it to https://api.vimeo.com/videos/105769240 when it should have been /videos/105769240 (I think?)

With the latter set, I got the "Unable to request an upload url from vimeo" exception, and this response:

(
    [body] => 
    [status] => 405
    [headers] => Array
        (
            [Date] => Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15
            [Server] => Apache
            [Allow] => GET,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS
            [Cache-Control] => max-age=315360000
            [Expires] => Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15
            [Vary] => Accept-Encoding
            [Content-Length] => 0
            [Content-Type] => application/json
        )
)

This is interesting since in the code it's a POST request. Am I using the wrong endpoint?

I also tried /videos/105769240/pictures as the endpoint parameter - this gave me a list of thumbnail sizes, but did not seem to upload the picture.

Matt

[Dashron]

The $pictures_uri should match the pictures connection in a clip response. It usually looks like "/videos/105769240/pictures".

$lib->uploadImage($clip['metadata']['connections']['pictures']['uri'], $path)

• or -
  $lib->uploadImage('/videos/105769240/pictures', $path)

A POST request will be made against that url (https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php/blob/master/vimeo.php#L354) and it should give you a new single picture response, with the necessary informatoin to perform the upload.

Everything will be handled for you in the uploadImage method, and it will return a uri, pointing to the new image resource (/videos/[id]/pictures/[id])