Twitter Initialize Media Upload

Initialize a media upload session for X/Twitter. Use this to start a chunked media upload process, which returns a media_id for subsequent APPEND and FINALIZE commands. Required for uploading large files or when using the chunked upload workflow.

Write actionRisk level 2 of 5Provider setup required

Use Twitter Initialize Media Upload

Pricing and limits

Pricing

Free

Unified payment

Not currently supported

Inputs

sharedboolean
Whether this media is shared or not. Optional parameter.
media_typestring
Required
The MIME type of the media file to be uploaded (e.g., 'video/mp4', 'image/png'). This determines how Twitter processes the file.
total_bytesinteger
Required
The total size of the media file in bytes. Must be between 0 and 17179869184 (16 GB).
media_categorystring
Media category for upload
additional_ownersarray
A list of user IDs to set as additional owners allowed to use the returned media_id in Tweets or Cards. Each user ID must be a string of 1-19 digits.

Observable output

data
Required
Data from the action execution
errorstring
Error if any occurred during the execution of the action
successfulboolean
Required
Whether or not the action execution was successful or not

Skills that use this Action

No published Skills explicitly reference this Action yet.

Skills that use this Action

Related use cases

No verified related use cases are linked yet.

Official source

Provider source

Skills that use this Action

No published Skills explicitly reference this Action yet.