Youtube PHP APi Check VIdeo Is Duplicate Or Not

Question

Hi I am using Google PHP API to upload video in PHP. I have followed this tutorial to implement this and it is working fine. But there is a problem if video is already exist

Answer 1

Without the ability to run a cron job, you'll probably have to check if it's a duplicate the next time you try to access the video.

Alternatively, after the video is uploaded you could launch another php script that a while loop checking the status periodically (sleeping for a time before making another API request to check.)

do
{
    $videos = $youtubeClient->videos->listVideos('status', ['id' => $videoId]);
    $video = $videos['items'][0]; // assuming you want one video. Iterate over the items array otherwise

    if($video['status']['uploadStatus'] == 'rejected' && $video['status']['rejectionReason'] == 'duplicate') {
        // Notify user of duplicate and/or note failed upload in DB
    }
    else {
        sleep(180);
    }
} while ($video['status']['uploadStatus'] == 'processing')

You'll need to make sure that script can be run from the command line and can accept arguments to get the video ID from the original upload script. http://php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php

Personally I don't like the idea of launching additional scripts with loops like this as you can end up with rouge processes if you don't check all your edge cases, but without cron jobs your options are limited.