[Upload Media API] Cannot upload photo from bytes.

[brianwu291]

Recently I use the upload API from bytes(follow this API Docs), but I failed to upload the photo. Here is my code:

const myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");
myHeaders.append("Authorization", `Bearer ${accessToken}`);
const requestOptions = {
 method: 'POST',
 headers: myHeaders,
 redirect: 'follow'
};
fetch("https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts/*******/locations/******/media:startUpload", requestOptions)
 .then(res => res.json()) // here I got correct format response like this {  resourceName: '******'  }
 .then(res => {
     const myHeaders = new Headers();
     myHeaders.append("Authorization", `Bearer ${accessToken}`);
     myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "image/jpeg");
     const file = "<file contents accessed by input element event listener.>";
     const requestOptions = {
         method: 'POST',
         headers: myHeaders,
         body: file,
         redirect: 'follow'
     };
     return fetch(`https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/upload/v1/media/${res.resourceName}?upload_type=media`, 
       requestOptions)
      .then(result => {
        console.log(result)  // got nothing but empty string, status code is 200.
        return res;
      }) 
 })
 .then(res => {
       const myHeaders = new Headers();
       myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");
       const raw = JSON.stringify({"mediaFormat":"PHOTO","locationAssociation":{"category":"ADDITIONAL"},"dataRef":{"resourceName":`${res.resourceName}`}});
      myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");
      const requestOptions = {
         method: 'POST',
         headers: myHeaders,
         body: raw,
         redirect: 'follow'
      };
       fetch("https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts/****/locations/****/media", requestOptions)
         .then(response => response.json())
         .then(result => console.log(result))
         .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
 })

after the last request, I got the following error response:

{
    "error": {
        "code": 400,
        "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",
        "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
        "details": [
            {
                "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.mybusiness.v4.ValidationError",
                "errorDetails": [
                    {
                        "code": 1000,
                        "message": "Fetching image failed."
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

Does something I did wrong?

[YevhenKovalevskyi]

Have you solved this issue?

[driss-ben]

Did you fixe the issue ?

[gybandi]

Did you fixe the issue ?

I was having the same issue as OP and last year I contacted google business API team about it. They've recently replied that it seems to be a bug in the API and they added this to their public issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/293595949

[driss-ben]

So there is no solution right now ?

[gybandi]

It seems that way, at least I haven't found any.

You could use the "Upload from a URL" method described here:
https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/upload-photos
This seems to be working, but for me it wasn't a viable solution

Edit: perhaps you can click on the "I'm impacted" (+1) button on the link I posted above, maybe that will move the issue up in priority

[miteshantala]

I am facing same issue.

[faisalshah42]

use following method it works but only if you provide it url of image that is already hosted on your own server or somewhere else:

local_post["media"] = [{
"sourceUrl": post_media_url,
"media_format": "PHOTO"
}]