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Uploading videos to Bunny Stream

The Bunny Stream documentation is a little vague, so here are instructions for using the API in PHP.

Create Video

Before actually uploading a video, you need to create a video using the video_createvideo endpoint. In PHP the code to do so looks like this:

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

// libraryId: the ID for the Bunny Stream Library to create the video in
// title: the title for the video
// thumbnailTime, integer, what point in the video in milliseconds to use as a thumbnail
$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://video.bunnycdn.com/library/[libraryId]/videos', [
	'body' => '{"title":"[your video title]","thumbnailTime":[time for thumbnail generation, in millis]',
	'headers' => [
		'AccessKey' => '<your Bunny Stream API access key - your normal Bunny API key will not work>',
		'accept' => 'application/json',
		'content-type' => 'application/*+json',
	],
]);

$result = $response->getBody();
// Bunny Stream API returns result as a JSON string
$result = json_decode($result);
// The new video ID, if the request was successful
$guid = $result->guid;

Upload video

If the video was created successfully, you can now upload it using the video_uploadvideo endpoint:

$yourVideoLocalFilePath = "path/to/yourvideo.mp4";
$libraryID = "[your video library ID]";
$videoGuid = "[the GUID you got after creating the video in the previous step]";

// Open video file for reading in binary form
$videoFileBody = fopen($yourVideoLocalFilePath, "rb");
// Get the filesize of the video so we can read it correctly
$fileSize = filesize($yourVideoLocalFilePath);
// Read the video file into a string
$videoFileBodyString = fread($videoFileBody, $fileSize);
$response = $client->request('PUT', 'https://video.bunnycdn.com/library/[libraryId]' . $libraryID . '/videos/' . $videoGuid, [
	'body' => $videoFileBodyString,
	'headers' => [
		'AccessKey' => '<your Bunny Stream API key>',
		'accept' => 'application/json',
	],
]);

Note that once the upload completes, the video still has to be transcoded. The Bunny Stream webhook can send notifications of status updates, but be aware that it has no set list of IPs, making it difficult to use on test environments.

 

 

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