Upload video to Youtube using Youtube API V3 and PHP

I was able to get the upload working using the following code:

if($client->getAccessToken()) {    $snippet = new Google_VideoSnippet();    $snippet->setTitle("Test title");    $snippet->setDescription("Test descrition");    $snippet->setTags(array("tag1","tag2"));    $snippet->setCategoryId("22");    $status = new Google_VideoStatus();    $status->privacyStatus = "private";    $video = new Google_Video();    $video->setSnippet($snippet);    $video->setStatus($status);    $error = true;    $i = 0;    try {        $obj = $youTubeService->videos->insert("status,snippet", $video,                                         array("data"=>file_get_contents("video.mp4"),                                         "mimeType" => "video/mp4"));    } catch(Google_ServiceException $e) {        print "Caught Google service Exception ".$e->getCode(). " message is ".$e->getMessage(). " <br>";        print "Stack trace is ".$e->getTraceAsString();    }}

I realize this is old, but here's the answer off the documentation:

    // REPLACE this value with the path to the file you are uploading.    $videoPath = "/path/to/file.mp4";    $snippet = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoSnippet();    $snippet->setTitle("Test title");    $snippet->setDescription("Test description");    $snippet->setTags(array("tag1", "tag2"));    // Numeric video category. See    // https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list     $snippet->setCategoryId("22");    // Set the video's status to "public". Valid statuses are "public",    // "private" and "unlisted".    $status = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoStatus();    $status->privacyStatus = "public";    // Associate the snippet and status objects with a new video resource.    $video = new Google_Service_YouTube_Video();    $video->setSnippet($snippet);    $video->setStatus($status);    // Specify the size of each chunk of data, in bytes. Set a higher value for    // reliable connection as fewer chunks lead to faster uploads. Set a lower    // value for better recovery on less reliable connections.    $chunkSizeBytes = 1 * 1024 * 1024;    // Setting the defer flag to true tells the client to return a request which can be called    // with ->execute(); instead of making the API call immediately.    $client->setDefer(true);    // Create a request for the API's videos.insert method to create and upload the video.    $insertRequest = $youtube->videos->insert("status,snippet", $video);    // Create a MediaFileUpload object for resumable uploads.    $media = new Google_Http_MediaFileUpload(        $client,        $insertRequest,        'video/*',        null,        true,        $chunkSizeBytes    );    $media->setFileSize(filesize($videoPath));    // Read the media file and upload it chunk by chunk.    $status = false;    $handle = fopen($videoPath, "rb");    while (!$status && !feof($handle)) {      $chunk = fread($handle, $chunkSizeBytes);      $status = $media->nextChunk($chunk);    }    fclose($handle);    // If you want to make other calls after the file upload, set setDefer back to false    $client->setDefer(false);

I also realize this is old, but as I cloned the latest version of php-client from GitHub I ran in to trouble with Google_Service_YouTube_Videos_Resource::insert()-method.

I would pass an array with "data" => file_get_contents($pathToVideo) and "mimeType" => "video/mp4" set as an argument for the insert()-method, but I still kept getting (400) BadRequest in return.

Debugging and reading through Google's code i found in \Google\Service\Resource.php there was a check (on lines 179-180) against an array key "uploadType" that would initiate the Google_Http_MediaFielUpload object.

$part = 'status,snippet';$optParams = array(    "data" => file_get_contents($filename),    "uploadType" => "media",  // This was needed in my case    "mimeType" => "video/mp4",);$response = $youtube->videos->insert($part, $video, $optParams);

If I remember correctly, with version 0.6 of the PHP-api the uploadType argument wasn't needed. This might apply only for the direct upload style and not the resumable upload shown in Any Day's answer.