Initiate a media upload — initiate_post_media

Starts a media upload session and returns a media_id and upload_url. After calling this function, PUT the raw binary data to upload_url, then poll get_post_media_status() until the status is "STATUS_COMPLETED". Use upload_media() for a convenient all-in-one wrapper.

Usage

initiate_post_media_upload(
  client,
  content_type,
  data_size,
  media_type = "TYPE_IMAGE",
  description = NULL
)

Arguments

client: A mixi2_client object created by mixi2_client().
content_type: MIME type of the file (e.g. "image/jpeg").
data_size: File size in bytes.
media_type: "TYPE_IMAGE" or "TYPE_VIDEO".
description: Optional description string.

Value

A list with media_id and upload_url.