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Media

Initialize Media Upload

Changed on

Initializes a media upload.

post/2/media/upload/initialize

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.x.com
  • URL
    https://api.x.com/2/media/upload/initialize
  • Auth
    • OAuth 2
      Authorization code: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/authorize
      Token URL: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token scopes: media.write
    • or HTTP oauth

Request body

additional_ownersstring[]

User ids granted access to the uploaded media.

media_category'amplify_video' | 'tweet_gif' | 'tweet_image' | 'tweet_video' | 'dm_gif' | 'dm_image' | 'dm_video' | 'subtitles'

The media category of the upload.

media_type'video/mp4' | 'video/webm' | 'video/mp2t' | 'video/quicktime' | 'text/srt' | 'text/vtt' | 'image/jpeg' | 'image/gif' | 'image/bmp' | 'image/png' | 'image/webp' | 'image/pjpeg' | 'image/tiff' | 'model/gltf-binary' | 'model/vnd.usdz+zip'

The type of media.

sharedboolean

Whether this media is shared or not.

total_bytesinteger

The total size of the media upload in bytes.

Response

The request has succeeded.

Changes

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