YouTube API 3 Upload Video - Invalid Credentials - Android

Question

I am working on an Android app that records video and allows the user to upload it directly to YouTube using the YouTube Data API v3. The code is similar to that described in:

YouTube API 3 Upload Video - Access not configured - Android

It successfully uploads files to YouTube in the majority of cases, however, when the file is very large (~ hours of footage, several GB of data), the upload fails. The upload reaches about half way through a 4GB file and then produces this message:

{
    "code": 401,
    "errors": [
        {
            "domain": "global",
            "location": "Authorization",
            "locationType": "header",
            "message": "Invalid Credentials",
            "reason": "authError"
        }
    ],
    "message": "Invalid Credentials"
}

There is no change between the successful and unsuccessful code. The credentials are the same. The upload works for about an hour before failing.

Other potentially useful information is found in the Android stacktrace:

W/GLSUser(1794): [amz][amz] Permission for com.package.name to access oauth2: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload will be managed remotely.
W/qdhwcomposer(318): Excessive delay reading vsync: took 1182 ms
W/HttpTransport(8543): exception thrown while executing request
W/HttpTransport(8543): java.io.IOException: unexpected end of stream
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at libcore.net.http.FixedLengthOutputStream.close(FixedLengthOutputStream.java:58)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpRequest.execute(NetHttpRequest.java:81)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest.execute(HttpRequest.java:964)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.media.MediaHttpUploader.executeCurrentRequest(MediaHttpUploader.java:559)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.media.MediaHttpUploader.resumableUpload(MediaHttpUploader.java:434)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.media.MediaHttpUploader.upload(MediaHttpUploader.java:345)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:418)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:343)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:460)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.multplx.android.trickbook.uploader.VideoUploadAsyncTask.doInBackground(VideoUploadAsyncTask.java:133)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at com.multplx.android.trickbook.uploader.VideoUploadAsyncTask.doInBackground(VideoUploadAsyncTask.java:1)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:234)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1080)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:573)
W/HttpTransport(8543):  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
W/VideoUploadAsyncTask(8543): @ Exception : com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 401 Unauthorized

Which corresponds to:

try {
    // https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/insert
    Insert videoInsert = inserts[0];
    uploader = videoInsert.getMediaHttpUploader();
    uploader.setProgressListener(progressListener);
    Video returnedVideo = videoInsert.execute();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
    ...
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '14 at 16:32

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It looks like your upload was taking more than the one hour (or less) that the access token had left to live.

I have no idea if/how the client library deals with an expiring token, so you may want to handle it yourself in the progressListener.

answered Jan 20 '14 at 16:32

pinoyyid

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '14 at 22:05

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There is a known issue about resumable uploads failing more than an hour.

You can track the progress of the issue from issue tracker:

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=5124

answered Jan 20 '14 at 22:05

Ibrahim Ulukaya

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