Upload an asset
To upload an asset, your first need to request for a direct upload URL
and only then actually upload the contents of the asset.
Once you created a upload link, you have 2 options, resumable or direct
upload. For a more reliable experience, you should use resumable uploads
which will work better for users with unreliable or slow network
connections. If you want a simpler implementation though, you should
just use a direct upload.
Direct Upload
For a direct upload, make a PUT request to the URL received in the url field of the response above, with the raw video file as the request body. response above:
Resumable Upload
Livepeer supports resumable uploads via Tus. This section provides a
simple example of how to use tus-js-client to upload a video file.
From the previous section, we generated a URL to upload a video file to
Livepeer on POST /api/asset/request-upload. You should use the
tusEndpoint field of the response to upload the video file and track the
progress:
# This assumes there is an `input` element of `type="file"` with id
`fileInput` in the HTML
const input = document.getElementById('fileInput');
const file = input.files[0];
const upload = new tus.Upload(file, {
endpoint: tusEndpoint, // URL from `tusEndpoint` field in the
`/request-upload` response
metadata: {
filename,
filetype: 'video/mp4',
},
uploadSize: file.size,
onError(err) {
console.error('Error uploading file:', err);
},
onProgress(bytesUploaded, bytesTotal) {
const percentage = ((bytesUploaded / bytesTotal) * 100).toFixed(2);
console.log('Uploaded ' + percentage + '%');
},
onSuccess() {
console.log('Upload finished:', upload.url);
},
});
const previousUploads = await upload.findPreviousUploads();
if (previousUploads.length > 0) {
upload.resumeFromPreviousUpload(previousUploads[0]);
}
upload.start();
Note: If you are using tus from node.js, you need to add a custom URL storage to enable resuming from previous uploads. On the browser, this is enabled by default using local storage. In node.js, add urlStorage: new tus.FileUrlStorage(“path/to/tmp/file”), to the UploadFile object definition above.
Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Body
Response
The response is of type object.