Vimeo API C# - Uploading a video

Question

I'm following the api's guide about resumable uploads. I managed to get a response after step 1 ("create the video"), with a uri and a upload_link. About the second part, things are not as clear. It only says which headers should I sent, but there are two things I don't get, first - where do I need to put the "upload_link"? Should the call be like this:

/me/{upload_link}? (of course im also adding the access token, etc)

second, what about the actual file? I guess i should send it in the same method, but how? No word about it.

This is the code for the PATCH request:

    public string UploadPatch(
string uploadlink,
string method)
{
var headers = new WebHeaderCollection()
{

{ "Tus-Resumable", "1.0.0" },
{ "Upload-Offest", "0" }

};
method = method.ToUpper();


string body = "";
string contentType = "application/offset+octet-stream";

return Helpers.HTTPUpload(uploadlink, method, headers, body, contentType);

}

And HTTPUpload():

public static string HTTPPatch(string url, string method,
      WebHeaderCollection headers, string payload,
      string contentType)
    {
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
        if (Proxy != null) request.Proxy = Proxy;

        request.Headers = headers;
        request.Method = method;
        request.Accept = "application/vnd.vimeo.*+json; version=3.1";
        request.ContentType = contentType;
        request.KeepAlive = false;

        if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(payload))
        {
            var streamBytes = Helpers.ToByteArray(payload);
            request.ContentLength = streamBytes.Length;
            Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
            reqStream.Write(streamBytes, 0, streamBytes.Length);
            reqStream.Close();
        }

        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)(request.GetResponse());
        Debug.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);

        var dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
        string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
        reader.Close();
        dataStream.Close();

        response.Close();

        Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("Response from URL {0}:", url), "HTTPFetch");
        Debug.WriteLine(responseFromServer, "HTTPFetch");
        return responseFromServer;
    }

Thanks

Answer 1

The upload_link is the URL where you upload the video to. In other words, make your call to the https://[...].cloud.vimeo.com/upload?[...] URL instead of the https://api.vimeo.com host that is used for other API requests.

Additionally, when you make a request to that cloud.vimeo.com upload_link, only provide the required headers as specified in the documentation.

https://developer.vimeo.com/api/upload/videos#resumable-approach