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    copied!<p>I'm trying to upload video to youtube programatically. I chose to use Node.js for the task.</p> <p>I get an XML response as well as an HTTP Status Code of 201 and I see the video appear in video manager, however the video always has the message "Failed (unable to convert video file)".</p> <p>I can upload the file through YouTube's own uploader on their page and there are no problems. I only have to upload to a single account, so I set up the OAuth2 for the account and stored the refresh token. The refresh token is hard-coded, though I replace it with a variable below.</p> <p>Does the refresh token need to, itself, be refreshed?</p> <p>My code:</p> <pre><code>var qs = require('querystring'), https = require('https'), fs = require('fs'); var p_data = qs.stringify({ client_id: myClientID, client_secret: myClientSecret, refresh_token: refreshTokenForAccount, grant_type: 'refresh_token' }); var p_options = { host: 'accounts.google.com', port: '443', method: 'POST', path: '/o/oauth2/token', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Content-Length': p_data.length, 'X-GData-Key': myDeveloperKey } }; var file_path = process.argv[1] || "video.mp4"; var json = ""; var p_req = https.request(p_options, function(resp){ resp.setEncoding( 'utf8' ); resp.on('data', function( chunk ){ json += chunk; }); resp.on("end", function(){ debugger; var access_token = JSON.parse(json).access_token; var title="test upload1", description="Second attempt at an API video upload", keywords="", category="Comedy"; var file_reader = fs.createReadStream(file_path, {encoding: 'binary'}); var file_contents = ''; file_reader.on('data', function(data) { file_contents += data; }); file_reader.on('end', function() { var xml = '&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;' + '&lt;entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007"&gt;' + ' &lt;media:group&gt;' + ' &lt;media:title type="plain"&gt;' + title + '&lt;/media:title&gt;' + ' &lt;media:description type="plain"&gt;' + description + '&lt;/media:description&gt;' + ' &lt;media:category scheme="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat"&gt;' + category + '&lt;/media:category&gt;' + ' &lt;media:keywords&gt;' + keywords + '&lt;/media:keywords&gt;' + ' &lt;/media:group&gt;' + '&lt;/entry&gt;'; var boundary = Math.random(); var post_data = []; var part = ''; part = "--" + boundary + "\r\nContent-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\n" + xml + "\r\n"; post_data.push(new Buffer(part, "utf8")); part = "--" + boundary + "\r\nContent-Type: video/mp4\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: binary\r\n\r\n"; post_data.push(new Buffer(part, 'utf8')); post_data.push(new Buffer(file_contents, 'binary')); post_data.push(new Buffer("\r\n--" + boundary + "--\r\n\r\n", 'utf8')); var post_length = 0; for(var i = 0; i &lt; post_data.length; i++) { post_length += post_data[i].length; } var options = { host: 'uploads.gdata.youtube.com', port: 443, path: '/feeds/api/users/default/uploads', method: 'POST', headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token, 'X-GData-Key': myDeveloperKey, 'Slug': 'video.mp4', 'Content-Type': 'multipart/related; boundary="' + boundary + '"', 'Content-Length': post_length, 'Connection': 'close' } } var req = https.request(options, function(res) { res.setEncoding('utf8'); console.dir(res.statusCode); console.dir(res.headers); var response = ''; res.on('data', function(chunk) { response += chunk; }); res.on('end', function() { console.log( "We got response: " ); console.log(response); }); }); for (var i = 0; i &lt; post_data.length; i++) { req.write(post_data[i]); } req.on('error', function(e) { console.error(e); }); req.end(); }); }); }); p_req.write(p_data); p_req.end(); </code></pre>
 

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