Twitter::REST::Media

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upload(media, options = {}) click to toggle source

Uploads media to attach to a tweet

@see dev.twitter.com/docs/api/multiple-media-extended-entities @rate_limited No @authentication Requires user context @raise [Twitter::Error::Unauthorized] Error raised when supplied user credentials are not valid. @raise [Twitter::Error::UnacceptableIO] Error when the IO object for the media argument does not have a to_io method. @return [Integer] The uploaded media ID. @param media [File, Hash] A File object with your picture (PNG, JPEG or GIF) @param options [Hash] A customizable set of options.

# File lib/twitter/rest/media.rb, line 17
def upload(media, options = {})
  fail(Twitter::Error::UnacceptableIO.new) unless media.respond_to?(:to_io)
  url_prefix = 'https://upload.twitter.com'
  path = '/1.1/media/upload.json'
  conn = connection.dup
  conn.url_prefix = url_prefix
  headers = request_headers(:post, url_prefix + path, options)
  options.merge!(:media => media)
  conn.post(path, options) { |request| request.headers.update(headers) }.env.body[:media_id]
end

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