VBScript

Upload Media for Google Photos

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Demonstrates how to upload a media file (such as a JPG image) that will be placed in a Google Photos album. Uploading is a two-step process:

1. Upload the raw bytes to a Google Server. This doesn't result in any media items being created in the user’s Google Photos account. Instead, it returns an upload token which identifies the uploaded bytes.
2. Use the upload token to create the media item in the user’s Google Photos account. You can choose whether the media should be also added to a specific album.

This example shows step 1.

VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' Get the previously obtained access token.
' See Get Google Photos Access Token.

set jsonToken = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googlePhotos.json")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(jsonToken.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

http.AuthToken = jsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

' This is the HTTPS POST we'll be sending:
' POST https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads
' Authorization: Bearer OAUTH2_TOKEN
' Content-type: application/octet-stream
' X-Goog-Upload-File-Name: FILENAME
' X-Goog-Upload-Protocol: raw

http.SetRequestHeader "X-Goog-Upload-File-Name","penguins.jpg"
http.SetRequestHeader "X-Goog-Upload-Protocol","raw"

' Assuming the media isn't super large, we'll just read it into memory and send.
' (Another example exists for streaming a large media file directly from the filesystem.)

' Load the media file into memory.
set bdMedia = CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = bdMedia.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/penguins.jpg")

url = "https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads"
set resp = CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpBd("POST",url,bdMedia,"application/octet-stream",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Examine the response status code.  Success is indicated by a status code of 200.
outFile.WriteLine("response status code: " & resp.StatusCode)

' Show the response body.
If (resp.StatusCode = 200) Then
    ' Success.
    outFile.WriteLine("Upload token: " & resp.BodyStr)
Else
    outFile.WriteLine("Error:")
    outFile.WriteLine(resp.BodyStr)
End If

' Clear headers such as X-Goog-Upload-File-Name for subsequent HTTP requests sent on this object..
http.ClearHeaders 

outFile.Close