Using Twit to post a video with a bot - node.js

Question

function fridayNight(){
const videoPath = "C:\\GitHub\\DivasLive\\DivasLive\\nsync.mp4";
console.log("It's Friday night and I just Got Paid!");
var b64content = fs.readFileSync(videoPath, { encoding: 'base64' });
var mediaType = MIM.getMIMEType(videoPath);
T.post('media/upload', { media_data: b64content, media_type: mediaType }, function (err, data,
response)
{
if(err)
{
console.log(err);
} else
{
console.log(data);
var mediaIdStr = data.media_id_string
var params = { status: "Just got paid!", media_id: [mediaIdStr] };
T.post('statuses/update', params, function (err, data, response)
{
console.log(data);
console.log(err);
});
};
});
};
I keep getting a 400: Media type unrecognized, but I'm trying to explicitly define it in line 88. Here's the full gist as well. https://gist.github.com/MetzinAround/25b5771564aa7de183391398db52dbef

Answer 1

For video and GIFs, you need to use the chunked media upload method - you cannot do it in a "single shot", it has multiple stages (INIT, APPEND, FINALIZE), per the Twitter docs.
Please note that to upload videos or GIFs (tweet_video, amplify_video, and tweet_gif), you need to use the chunked upload end-point.
It turns out that the twit module has a helper method for doing this, postMediaChunked - this also saves you having to tell Twitter the mime type of the data, which means you can remove the import of the mim module.
Here's a minimal example of just doing the media part - you just need to extract the media_id_string and use that in the statuses/update call:
// Create an Twitter object to connect to Twitter API
const Twit = require('twit')
// Making a Twit object for connection to the API
const T = new Twit(config)
var filePath = '/Users/myuser/Downloads/robot.mp4'
T.postMediaChunked({
file_path: filePath
}, function (err, data, response) {
console.log(data)
})
output:
{
media_id: 1379414276864151600,
media_id_string: '1379414276864151557',
media_key: '7_1379414276864151557',
size: 924669,
expires_after_secs: 86400,
processing_info: { state: 'pending', check_after_secs: 1 }
}
(note that, in JavaScript, you should always use the string versions of Twitter IDs - as you can see here, the numeric version in media_id does not match media_id_string, as JavaScript cannot properly handle long integers, and has mangled the numeric value)