Help :( Does anyone know how to write a POST request for uploading Youtube videos via the Youtube API, in Java?
The structure of the POST request required is described here.
Unfortunately I can't use the Youtube Java client libraries, because I'm working in Android, which doesn't support them.
I have some attempted code below, but it doesn't work (I get the error that conn.getResponseCode() is null).
public void videoUpload() {
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
// BufferedReader br = null;
DataOutputStream dos = null;
InputStream inStream = null;
// InputStream is = null;
// OutputStream os = null;
// boolean ret = false;
// String StrMessage = "";
//file path
// get filename from videoURI
String path = "file:///sdcard/";
String existingFileName = "video.3gp";
File videoFile = new File(path + existingFileName);
// String lineEnd = "\r\n";
String twoHyphens = "--";
String boundary = "b93dcbA3";
String ver = "2";
int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;
byte[] buffer;
int maxBufferSize = 1024;
// String responseFromServer = "";
try {
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(videoFile);
URL url = new URL("http://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/[XXXXXXXXXX]/uploads");
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Allow Inputs
conn.setDoInput(true);
// Allow Outputs
conn.setDoOutput(true);
// Don't use a cached copy.
conn.setUseCaches(false);
// Use a post method.
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
// conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
conn.setRequestProperty("Host", "uploads.gdata.youtube.com");
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "GoogleLogin auth=" + token);
conn.setRequestProperty("GData-Version", ver);
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Gdata-Client", clientId);
conn.setRequestProperty("X-GData-Key", "key=" + developerKey);
conn.setRequestProperty("Slug", existingFileName); //fix this
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"multipart/related;boundary=" + boundary);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", new Long(videoFile //and this
.length()).toString());
conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "close");
//do we not want a boundary string here?
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8");
//and here?
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "video/3gpp");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary");
dos = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
dos.write((twoHyphens + boundary).toString().getBytes());
StringBuilder test_xml = new StringBuilder();
test_xml.append("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>\n");
test_xml.append("<entry xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n");
test_xml.append("xmlns:media=\"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/\"\n");
test_xml.append("xmlns:yt=\"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007\">\n");
test_xml.append("<media:group>\n");
test_xml.append("<media:title type=\"plain\">Test Video</media:title>\n");
test_xml.append("<media:description type=\"plain\">\nTest Video\n</media:description>\n");
test_xml.append("<media:category\n");
test_xml.append("scheme=\"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat\">People\n");
test_xml.append("</media:category>\n");
test_xml.append("<media:keywords>toast, election, wedding</media:keywords>\n");
test_xml.append("</media:group>\n");
test_xml.append("</entry>");
dos.write(test_xml.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));
// System.out.println(test_xml.toString());
dos.write((twoHyphens + boundary).toString().getBytes());
// create a buffer of maximum size
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
// read file and write it into form
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
while (bytesRead > 0) {
// dos.flush();
dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
}
// byte [] buf = new byte[2048]; // Transfer in 2k chunks
// int bytesRead = 0;
// while ((bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) >=
// 0) {
// dos.write(buf, 0, bytesRead);
// // dos.flush();
// }
// send multipart form data necesssary after file data
// dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
// dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);
dos.write((twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens).toString()
.getBytes());
// close streams
fileInputStream.close();
dos.flush();
dos.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
int responseCode;
StringBuilder outputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
try {
responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
inStream = conn.getInputStream();
} else {
inStream = conn.getErrorStream();
}
String string;
if (inStream != null) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(inStream));
while (null != (string = reader.readLine())) {
outputBuilder.append(string).append("\n");
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (inStream != null) {
try {
inStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
System.out.println(outputBuilder.toString());
Log.d(LOG_TAG, outputBuilder.toString());
}