Tring to use Vimeo API

Hi, I try to use vimeo API to upload video to Vimeo from my website to Vimeo without the video file touching my server. So I want to upload from the client to Vimeo server straight away. I am using this Vimeo documentation: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/upload/videos#form-based-approach-step-1 So basically I have to create a video "container " on Vimeo by sending a HTTP POST request to vimeo API. I using Guzzle as described in Laravel Doc. https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/http-client#introduction After I sent the post request to the API I shlould get an upload form in the response, but unfortunatelly I dont get the form in the response.

My code:

    $response = Http::withHeaders([
            'Authorization' =>	'bearer cca98blaaablaaaaaablaaaaaa',
            'Content-Type' =>	'application/json',
            'Accept' =>	'application/vnd.vimeo.*+json;version=3.4'
        ])->post('https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos', 
            [
                "upload->approach" => "post",
                "upload->redirect_url" => "http://127.0.0.1:8000/home",
            ]
        );
            dd($response);

the response:

Illuminate\Http\Client\Response {#1238 ▼
  #response: GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response {#1271 ▼
    -reasonPhrase: "Created"
    -statusCode: 201
    -headers: array:20 [▼
      "Connection" => array:1 [▶]
      "Server" => array:1 [▶]
      "Content-Type" => array:1 [▶]
      "Cache-Control" => array:1 [▶]
      "Strict-Transport-Security" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-RateLimit-Limit" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-RateLimit-Remaining" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-RateLimit-Reset" => array:1 [▶]
      "Request-Hash" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-BApp-Server" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-Vimeo-DC" => array:1 [▶]
      "Accept-Ranges" => array:1 [▶]
      "Via" => array:1 [▶]
      "Date" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-Served-By" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-Cache" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-Cache-Hits" => array:1 [▶]
      "X-Timer" => array:1 [▶]
      "Vary" => array:1 [▶]
      "transfer-encoding" => array:1 [▶]
    ]
    -headerNames: array:20 [▼
      "connection" => "Connection"
      "server" => "Server"
      "content-type" => "Content-Type"
      "cache-control" => "Cache-Control"
      "strict-transport-security" => "Strict-Transport-Security"
      "x-ratelimit-limit" => "X-RateLimit-Limit"
      "x-ratelimit-remaining" => "X-RateLimit-Remaining"
      "x-ratelimit-reset" => "X-RateLimit-Reset"
      "request-hash" => "Request-Hash"
      "x-bapp-server" => "X-BApp-Server"
      "x-vimeo-dc" => "X-Vimeo-DC"
      "accept-ranges" => "Accept-Ranges"
      "via" => "Via"
      "date" => "Date"
      "x-served-by" => "X-Served-By"
      "x-cache" => "X-Cache"
      "x-cache-hits" => "X-Cache-Hits"
      "x-timer" => "X-Timer"
      "vary" => "Vary"
      "transfer-encoding" => "transfer-encoding"
    ]
    -protocol: "1.1"
    -stream: GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Stream {#1272 ▼
      -stream: stream resource @532 ▶}
      -size: null
      -seekable: true
      -readable: true
      -writable: true
      -uri: "php://temp"
      -customMetadata: []
    }
  }
  #decoded: null
  +"cookies": GuzzleHttp\Cookie\CookieJar {#1252 ▶}
  +"transferStats": GuzzleHttp\TransferStats {#1273 ▶}
}

In the Vimeo API doc they says: set the upload.size parameter to length of the video file in bytes ... But at the time when I request the form from Vimeo I don't know what is the file size.

So I am not sure why I receive the response without the form..

martinbean

5 years ago

Best Answer

Level 80

So I am not sure why I receive the response without the form..

@norbertho You do. You’re just not using the HTTP client properly.

If you read https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/http-client#making-requests further, you’ll see that you have to call the body method on the response to get the response body as a string:

$response = Http::withHeaders([
    'Accept' =>	'application/vnd.vimeo.*+json;version=3.4',
    'Authorization' => 'bearer cca98blaaablaaaaaablaaaaaa',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
])->post('https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos', [
    'upload->approach' => 'post',
    'upload->redirect_url' => 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/home',
]);

$responseBody = $response->body();

What you’ve dumped in your question is just the response object itself, which is a wrapper around Guzzle’s response object.

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