Magento 2.1 : Adding a video to a product using REST API

Question

I am trying to add video media to product using REST API. Example below

$data = [ 'entry' => [
 'id' => null,
 'media_type' => 'external-video',
 'label' => null,
 'position' => 0,
 'types' => ['image', 'small-image', 'thumbnail'],
 'disabled' => false,
 'content' => [
 'base64_encoded_data' => base64_encode(file_get_contents('http://img.youtube.com/vi/axwE9q7llEQ/0.jpg')),
 'type' => 'image/jpeg',
 'name' => '0.jpg'
 ],
 'extension_attributes' => [
 'video_content' => [
 'media_type' => 'external-video',
 'video_provider' => 'youtube',
 'video_url' => 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwE9q7llEQ',
 'video_title' => 'KęKę',
 'video_description' => null,
 'video_metadata' => null
 ]
 ] ] ];
$ch = curl_init("http://URL/index.php/rest/V1/products/BICUMD2ndXXX036/media"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Authorization: Bearer " . json_decode($token)));
curl_exec($ch);

At the end I am receiving new media file ID but in admin I see that some fields like video url or description are empty. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

• 3tech - Alessandro Staffolani: Hi @rafal-kos I've the same issue! Did you found the solution?
• rafal-kos: Yes. I am calling first API request and after that I am calling direct sql queries with missing data $sql = "UPDATE catalog_product_entity_media_gallery_value_video SET store_id = 0, url = :url, title = :title WHERE value_id = :valueId"; $connection->query($sql, ['url' => $url, 'title' => $title, 'valueId' => $videoId]); $sql = "UPDATE catalog_product_entity_media_gallery_value SET store_id = 0 WHERE value_id = :videoId"; $connection->query($sql, ['videoId' => $videoId]); `

Answer 1

If anyone is struggling with this, it's fixed in Magento 2.1.8 EE:

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/release-notes/ReleaseNotes2.1.8EE.html#web-api

and Magento 2.1.8 CE:

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/release-notes/ReleaseNotes2.1.8CE.html#web-api

Answer 2

In version CE 2.1.11 I need to add the 'all' indication to the URL to circumvent the same problem. So: http://URL/index.php/rest/all/V1/products/BICUMD2ndXXX036/media instead of: http://URL/index.php/rest/V1/products/BICUMD2ndXXX036/media

Answer 3

I managed to add a video using rest API, check this link I explain what I did :

https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/7153#issuecomment-414727820

Hope it help.