Resume an interrupted YouTube Data API resumable upload session using Content-Range probing and budget quota for bulk uploads
domain: developers.google.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Initiate the resumable session with a POST to videos.insert using uploadType=resumable, and capture the session's upload URL from the response's Location header
On interruption, send an empty PUT request to that same upload URL with a Content-Range header of bytes */TOTAL_SIZE to query how much of the file the server actually received
Read the resulting HTTP 308 (Resume Incomplete) response's Range header to determine the last byte offset successfully stored server-side
Send a subsequent PUT request containing only the remaining bytes of the file, with a Content-Range header offset to start exactly where the 308 response indicated
On full completion the server returns 201 Created along with the newly created video resource
Before running any bulk-upload job, look up the current per-call quota cost of videos.insert in the API's quota documentation, since it costs far more units than typical read calls and can exhaust the default daily project quota after only a handful of uploads
Known gotchas
Resumable session upload URLs are only valid for a limited window (historically about a week) - an upload interrupted longer than that must restart from byte zero with a brand-new session
The Content-Range probe must use the exact bytes */TOTAL_SIZE syntax or the API will reject the status-check request instead of returning a usable 308
The default daily quota (historically 10,000 units) supports only a small number of videos.insert calls at its documented cost - request a quota increase via the API Console well before any bulk-upload launch, and re-verify the current cost since Google has changed quota costs over time
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