Xojo Plugin Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Upload Media to Twitter

Demonstrates uploading image or video files to Twitter. After uploading, the media_id can be used to attach the uploaded media to a tweet.

This example is deprecated and no longer valid.

Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  Assume we've previously obtained an access token and saved it to a JSON file..
Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/twitter.json")

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

//  Provide the OAuth 1.0a credentials:
http.OAuth1 = True
http.OAuthConsumerKey = "TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"
http.OAuthConsumerSecret = "TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"
http.OAuthToken = jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token")
http.OAuthTokenSecret = jsonToken.StringOf("oauth_token_secret")

Dim req As New Chilkat.HttpRequest
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.ContentType = "multipart/form-data"
req.Path = "/1.1/media/upload.json"

req.AddHeader "Expect","100-continue"

//  Add a JPEG image file to the upload.
Dim fac As New Chilkat.FileAccess
Dim jpgBytes As MemoryBlock
jpgBytes = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
success = req.AddBytesForUpload("media","starfish.jpg",jpgBytes)

Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpSReq("upload.twitter.com",443,True,req,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim jsonResponse As New Chilkat.JsonObject
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = False
success = jsonResponse.Load(resp.BodyStr)

If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    System.DebugLog(jsonResponse.Emit())
    Return
End If

//  Show the successful response:
System.DebugLog(jsonResponse.Emit())
System.DebugLog("Success.")

//  A successful JSON response looks like this:

//  	{
//  	  "media_id": 793137045996646400,
//  	  "media_id_string": "793137045996646400",
//  	  "size": 6229,
//  	  "expires_after_secs": 86400,
//  	  "image": {
//  	    "image_type": "image\/jpeg",
//  	    "w": 120,
//  	    "h": 120
//  	  }
//  	}
//  

//  Get the information from the JSON:
System.DebugLog("media_id_string = " + jsonResponse.StringOf("media_id_string"))
System.DebugLog("size = " + Str(jsonResponse.IntOf("size")))
System.DebugLog("image_type = " + jsonResponse.StringOf("image.image_type"))
System.DebugLog("height/width = " + Str(jsonResponse.IntOf("image.w")) + "," + Str(jsonResponse.IntOf("image.h")))