Video Upload Example

This example covers uploading & posting a video to a user's timeline with the Facebook SDK for PHP.

Example

$fb = new Facebook\Facebook([
  'app_id' => '{app-id}',
  'app_secret' => '{app-secret}',
  'default_graph_version' => 'v2.2',
  ]);

$data = [
  'title' => 'My Foo Video',
  'description' => 'This video is full of foo and bar action.',
  'source' => $fb->videoToUpload('/path/to/foo_bar.mp4'),
];

try {
  $response = $fb->post('/me/videos', $data, 'user-access-token');
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookResponseException $e) {
  // When Graph returns an error
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
  // When validation fails or other local issues
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}

$graphNode = $response->getGraphNode();
var_dump($graphNode);

echo 'Video ID: ' . $graphNode['id'];

Chunked upload example

In SDK V5.1, we introduced chunked upload to improve the success rate for large video file uploading. There are two ways to get this functionality:

All in One call

$fb = new Facebook\Facebook([
  'app_id' => '{app-id}',
  'app_secret' => '{app-secret}',
  'default_graph_version' => 'v2.3',
  ]);

$data = [
  'title' => 'My Foo Video',
  'description' => 'This video is full of foo and bar action.',
];

$path = '/path/to/foo_bar.mp4';
try {
  $response = $fb->uploadVideo('me', $path, $data, 'access-token');
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookResponseException $e) {
  // When Graph returns an error
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
  // When validation fails or other local issues
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}

$graphNode = $response->getGraphNode();
var_dump($graphNode);

echo 'Video ID: ' . $graphNode['id'];

Chunking by self

$accessToken = $accessToken ?: $this->defaultAccessToken;
$uploader = new FacebookResumableUploader($this->app, $this->client, $accessToken, 'v2.4');
$endpoint = '/'.$target.'/videos'; 
$file = $this->videoToUpload('/path/to/foo_bar.mp4');
$chunk = $uploader->start($endpoint, $file);
do {
   // use existing implementation maxTriesTransfer or use your own code here
   $chunk = $this->maxTriesTransfer($uploader, $endpoint, $chunk, $maxTransferTries);
} while (!$chunk->isLastChunk());

return [
  'video_id' => $chunk->getVideoId(),
  'success' => $uploader->finish($endpoint, $chunk->getUploadSessionId(), $metadata),
];