Generate a URL and Upload a Video

In this lesson, we'll learn about one of the most important services, video uploading, provided by Dailymotion. Video uploading and sharing are integral parts of any video creating and sharing platform. The video uploading process utilizes endpoints from the file and video objects. Uploading a video to Dailymotion is a five-step process as shown in the workflow diagram below:

Authenticate user

Since we generated an access token in the previous lesson, therefore, we are already the authenticated user. Your access token must have manage_videos scope to work with the video uploading functionality.

Generate an upload URL

In this step, we'll make a GET request to the https://api.dailymotion.com/file/upload endpoint, and it returns upload_url and progress_url. The upload_url is extracted from the response, and we save it to use in the next section(s).