Media Endpoints

Description of endpoints used to manage media uploads for posts on the DeSo blockchain

Upload Image

POST /api/v0/upload-image

Uploads an image to be included in a post and returns the URL where the image is stored. This endpoint also handles the resizing of the image.

Note that the request body should have multipart/form-data as the content type.

Endpoint implementation in backend.

Example usages in frontend: - Make request to Upload Image - Use UploadImage to upload an image when a user is making a post

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
UserPublicKeyBase58Check*	String	Public key of the user uploading the image.
JWT*	String	JWT of the user uploading the image.
file*	File	image file to upload. Must be gif, jpeg, png, or webp file. Must be less than 10 MB

200: OK Successfully uploaded image and response has URL at which image can be found

Sample Response

{
  "ImageURL": "https://images.deso.org/675fc5d13f397d6ce7801b0a76ca928822a768b606d16df1eb015b2e84ed81e5.gif"
}

Response Field Descriptions

400: Bad Request

Name	Type	Description
ImageURL	String	URL at which the uploaded image can be found

Upload Video

POST /api/v0/upload-video

UploadVideo creates a one-time tokenized URL that can be used to upload larger video files using the tus protocol. The client uses the Location header in the response from this function to upload the file. The client uses the Stream-Media-Id header in the response from cloudflare to understand how to access the file for streaming.

For more details, see the Cloudflare documentation on direct creator uploads here

Endpoint implementation in backend.

For an example of uploading a video using this endpoint and the tus protocol, see the implementation in frontend. After the upload finishes, you can check if the video is ready to be streamed by hitting the Get Video Statusendpoint

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Upload-Length*	Number	Length of video to be uploaded in bytes
Upload-Metadata	JSON	Arbitrary metadata values - see cloudflare documentation for more details

200: OK Successfully created one-time tokenized URL that can be used to upload a video

The Location header specifies the one-time tokenized URL. The Stream-Media-Id header is the ID used to stream the video from cloudflare after uploading the video.

400: Bad Request

Get Video Status

GET /api/v0/get-video-status/{videoId}

Get Video Status queries cloudflare's API to see if a video is ready to be streamed. This is useful in showing a preview of an uploaded video to an end-user when they are creating a post.

Endpoint implementation in backend.

Example usage in frontend: - Make request to Get Video Status - Use GetVideoStatus to poll and see if a video is ready to be streamed after a user finished uploading it.

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
videoId*	String	videoId retrieved from the stream-media-id header when uploading a video

200: OK Successfully queried Cloudflare for the status of the video

Sample Response

{
  "ReadyToStream": true // If true, video is ready to stream. If false, video is not ready to strea
}

Response Field Descriptions

400: Bad Request

Name	Type	Description
ReadyToStream	Boolean	If true, the video is ready to be streamed. If false, the video is still being processed by cloudflare

Get Full TikTok URL

POST /api/v0/get-full-tiktok-url

Given a short video ID of a TikTok, find the URL that can be used to embed this video. The short URL users get when copying a link to a TikTok from TikTok's mobile app isn't embeddable, so this endpoint allows us to find the desktop version of the URL from which we can construct an embeddable version of the URL.

Endpoint implementation in backend.

Example usages in frontend: - Make request to Get Full TikTok URL - Use GetFullTikTokURL to get an embeddable URL for the short form TikTok url

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
TikTokShortVideoID*	String	Video ID found at the end of a URL copied from the TikTok mobile app. For example, TTPd2Eobq3 is the VideoID in https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2Eobq3/`

200: OK Successfully retrieved the embeddable version of the mobile TikTok URL provided

Sample Response

{
  "FullTikTokURL": "https://m.tiktok.com/v/7037137657872403718.html?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo8T1WVnwCQv6PNczjlfPqZ%2BVrGtkECbrVIwDlSfs8Eubr5IYCCt7sen3HRJwDN44tt0IeLho5JoaUMWgAnGgA%3D&checksum=be13618b6e8d0eacdf95a8abd952ca14e997a5af0126908fb195dca7ab5082d5&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAACRLophxm1bvJ6oYFi4m52AIzepq8Naslxs3ATZs1YCLXomDfhhDOvxsW9DemYFYU&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7037137657872403718&share_link_id=2E462ECA-A6B5-44CF-9A9A-BD3F25E5F6FF&source=h5_m&timestamp=1638557967&tt_from=copy&u_code=djcd82ge94k75m&user_id=6980837453575472134&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy"
}

Response Field Descriptions

400: Bad Request

Name	Type	Description
FullTikTokURL	String	Desktop version of the mobile TikTok URL provided in the request body that can be embedded in a post