Generate a URL and Upload a Video
Explore the five-step process to upload videos on Dailymotion using JavaScript. Learn to generate the upload URL, upload video files, create a video entry, and publish it to make it publicly available. This lesson guides you through authenticating, coding requests, and managing video upload workflows with the Dailymotion API.
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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).
Request parameters
This endpoint does not take any parameter. Let’s see the functionality of this endpoint in the code widget ...