CreateUploadVideo - ApsaraVideo VOD - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Obtains an upload URL and an upload credential for uploading an audio or video file and generates the audio or video ID. ApsaraVideo VOD issues upload URLs and credentials to perform authorization and ensure security. This prevents unauthorized users from uploading media files. ApsaraVideo VOD generates media IDs, video IDs, and image IDs together with upload URLs and credentials. Media IDs are used in lifecycle management and media processing.

Operation description

Make sure that you understand the billing method and prices of ApsaraVideo VOD before you call this operation. You are charged storage fees after you upload media files to ApsaraVideo VOD. For more information, see Billing of media asset storage. If you have activated the acceleration service, you are charged acceleration fees when you upload media files to ApsaraVideo VOD. For more information, see Billing of acceleration traffic.
You can call this operation to obtain upload URLs and credentials for video and audio files. For more information, see Upload URLs and credentials.
You can call this operation only to obtain the upload URLs and credentials for media files and create media assets in ApsaraVideo VOD. You cannot call this operation to upload media files. For more information about how to upload media files by calling API operations, see Upload media files by calling API operations.
If the upload credential expires, call the RefreshUploadVideo operation to obtain a new upload credential. The default validity period of an upload credential is 3,000 seconds.
You can configure a callback to receive an event notification when an audio or video file is uploaded. Alternatively, after you upload an audio or video file, you can call the GetMezzanineInfo operation to determine whether the upload is successful. For more information, see Overview .
The value of the VideoId parameter that is returned after you call this operation can be used for media processing or the lifecycle management of media assets.
You must obtain a URL and a credential before you upload a media file to ApsaraVideo VOD. ApsaraVideo VOD supports multiple upload methods. Each method has different requirements on upload URLs and credentials. For more information, see Upload URLs and credentials.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Debug

Authorization information

There is currently no authorization information disclosed in the API.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
CoverURL	string	No	The URL of the custom video thumbnail.	https://example.aliyundoc.com/image/D22F553TEST****.jpeg
Description	string	No	The description of the audio or video file. The value can be up to 1,024 characters in length. The value must be encoded in UTF-8.	UploadTest
FileName	string	Yes	The name of the source file. The name must contain a file name extension, which is not case-sensitive. For more information about file name extensions supported by ApsaraVideo VOD, see Overview .	D:\video_01.mp4
FileSize	long	No	The size of the source file. Unit: bytes.	123
Title	string	Yes	The title of the audio or video file. The title can be up to 128 characters in length. The value must be encoded in UTF-8.	UploadTest
CateId	long	No	The ID of the category. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the ID: Log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Configuration Management > Media Management > Categories to view the category ID of the media file. Obtain the value of CateId from the response to the AddCategory operation. Obtain the value of CateId from the response to the GetCategories operation.	100036****
Tags	string	No	The tags of the audio or video file. You can specify a maximum of 16 tags. If you want to specify multiple tags, separate the tags with commas (,). Each tag can be up to 32 characters in length. The value must be encoded in UTF-8.	tag1,tag2
UserData	string	No	The custom configurations such as callback configurations and upload acceleration configurations. The value must be a JSON string. For more information, see Request parameters. Note The callback configurations take effect only after you specify the HTTP callback URL and select specific callback events in the ApsaraVideo VOD console. For more information about how to configure HTTP callback settings in the ApsaraVideo VOD console, see Configure callback settings. If you want to enable the upload acceleration feature, submit a request on Yida. For more information, see Overview .	{"MessageCallback":{"CallbackURL":"http://example.aliyundoc.com"},"Extend":{"localId":"*****","test":"www"}}
TemplateGroupId	string	No	The ID of the transcoding template group. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the ID: Log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Configuration Management > Media Processing > Transcoding Template Groups. On the Transcoding Template Groups page, you can view the ID of the transcoding template group.********** Obtain the value of the TranscodeTemplateGroupId parameter from the response to the AddTranscodeTemplateGroup operation that you called to create a transcoding template group. Obtain the value of the TranscodeTemplateGroupId parameter from the response to the ListTranscodeTemplateGroup operation that you called to query transcoding template groups. Note If you specify both WorkflowId and TemplateGroupId, the value of the WorkflowId parameter takes effect. If this parameter is not specified, transcoding is performed based on the default transcoding template group. If the transcoding template group ID is specified, transcoding is performed based on the specified template group. If the No Transcoding template group is used, only the FileUploadComplete event notification is returned after a video is uploaded. The StreamTranscodeComplete event notification is not returned. If you use the No Transcoding** template group to upload videos, only videos in the format of MP4, FLV, MP3, M3U8, or WebM can be played. Videos in other formats can only be stored in ApsaraVideo VOD. You can view the file name extension to obtain the video format. If you want to use ApsaraVideo Player, make sure that the version of the player is V3.1.0 or later.	405477f9e214d19ea2c7c854****
WorkflowId	string	No	The ID of the workflow. To view the ID of the workflow, log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Configuration Management > Media Processing > Workflows. Note If you specify the WorkflowId and TemplateGroupId parameters, the value of the WorkflowId parameter takes effect. For more information, see Workflows .	613efff3887ec34af685714cc461****
StorageLocation	string	No	The storage address. Perform the following operations to obtain the storage address: Log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Configuration Management > Media Management > Storage. On the Storage page, view the storage address. Note If you leave this parameter empty, audio and video files are uploaded to the default storage address. If you specify a storage address, audio and video files are uploaded to the specified address.	out-****.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com
AppId	string	No	The ID of the application. Default value: app-1000000. For more information, see Overview .	app-1000000

Note

If you use the No Transcoding template group to upload videos, only videos in the format of MP4, FLV, MP3, M3U8, or WebM can be played. Videos in other formats can only be stored in ApsaraVideo VOD. You can view the file name extension to obtain the video format. If you want to use ApsaraVideo Player, make sure that the version of the player is V3.1.0 or later.

If the No Transcoding template group is used, only the FileUploadComplete event notification is returned after a video is uploaded. The StreamTranscodeComplete event notification is not returned.

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object	The returned result.
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	25818875-5F78-4AF6-04D5-D7393642****
UploadAddress	string	The upload URL. Note The returned upload URL is a Base64-encoded URL. You must decode the Base64-encoded URL before you use an SDK or call an API operation to upload media files. You need to parse UploadAddress only if you use the Object Storage Service (OSS) SDK or call an OSS API operation to upload media files.	eyJTZWN1cml0a2VuIjoiQ0FJU3p3TjF****
VideoId	string	The ID of the audio or video file. VideoId can be used as a request parameter when you call an operation for media asset management, media processing, or media review.	93ab850b4f6f54b6e91d24d81d44****
UploadAuth	string	The upload credential. Note The returned upload credential is a Base64-encoded value. You must decode the Base64-encoded credential before you use an SDK or call an API operation to upload media files. You need to parse UploadAuth only if you use the OSS SDK or call an OSS API operation to upload media files.	eyJFbmRwb2ludCI6Imm****

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "25818875-5F78-4AF6-04D5-D7393642****",
  "UploadAddress": "eyJTZWN1cml0a2VuIjoiQ0FJU3p3TjF****",
  "VideoId": "93ab850b4f6f54b6e91d24d81d44****",
  "UploadAuth": "eyJFbmRwb2ludCI6Imm****"
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

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Common errors

The following table describes the error codes that this operation can return.

Error code	Error message	HTTP status code	Description
InvalidFileName.Extension	The specified FileName’s extension is illegal.	400	The error message returned because the file name extension in the FileName parameter is invalid. For more information about file name extensions supported in ApsaraVideo VOD, see Overview .
IllegalCharacters	The specified $Parameter contains illegal emoticon or special characters.	400	The error message returned because the value of a request parameter such as Title, Description, or Tags contains emoticons.
LengthExceededMax	The specified $Parameter length has exceeded $MaxLength bytes.	400	The error message returned because the value length of a request parameter such as Title, Description, or Tags exceeds the upper limit. For more information about the length limit of parameter values, see the description of the request parameters in this topic.
TagsExceededMax	The specified Tags count has exceeded 16.	400	The error message returned because more than 16 tags were specified for the video.
InvalidTemplateGroupId.NotFound	The TemplateGroupId does not exist.	404	The error message returned because the specified template group ID does not exist.
InvalidStorage.NotFound	The StorageLocation does not exist.	404	The error message returned because the specified storage address does not exist. Log on to the ApsaraVideo VOD console. Choose Configuration Management > Media Management > Storage. On the Storage page, check whether the storage address exists.
Forbidden.InitFailed	Initialization of your account has failed while opening service.	403	The error message returned because your account failed to be initialized when the service was activated.
AddVideoFailed	Adding video has failed due to some unknown error.	503	The error message returned because the video ID failed to be generated. Try again later.