Authentication failure trying to upload Vimeo video

Question

Using the official Vimeo PHP Library (https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo.php)

Attempting to upload a video using the upload() method of the client library return the following http response:

The authentication token is missing a user ID and must be provided when uploading a video.

However the Client Id, Client Secret, and Token are all being set on the client before calling the upload() method:

Client initialization:

$this->setClient(new Vimeo($this->clientId, $this->clientSecret, $this->token));

Call to upload method:

     try{
        $videoUri = $this->getClient()->upload($path, [
            'name' => $name,
            'privacy' => [
                'view' => 'anybody'
            ]
        ]);
        return $videoUri;
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        dump($e);
        return false;
    }

There is a tutorial endpoint, which I called using the client created above and got the following response:

{
    "message": "Success! You just interacted with the Vimeo API. Your dev environment is configured correctly, and the client ID, client secret, and access token that you provided are all working fine.",
    "next_steps_link": "https://developer.vimeo.com/api/guides/videos/upload",
    "token_is_authenticated": false
}

Any suggestions welcomed!

Answer 1

The issue was the the token being used was an unauthenticated token. I'd made the assumption that you only needed an authenticated token to upload on behalf of another user. By generating a new authenticated token that had the 'upload' scope I was able to upload the video using the exact code posted above.