How can I retrieve the SessionId when uploading via the REST upload API?

Erik Boon

After uploading one or more videos for a session, I would very much like to communicate the link to that new session to the owner of the folder containing the session. I followed the instructions on How to Upload Files Using the API (panopto.com) and indeed succesfully created a few sessions with multiple videos in one session.

As we can see in the example response on the instruction page, the SessionId we receive from the /PublicAPI/Rest/sessionUpload call is null.

How can I retrieve the SessionId when uploading video's via the upload API?

Joe Malmsten

Hi,

I believe that the SessionId field won't be listed in the response until Panopto starts to processing the Session.

What I think you can do is upload the session with the POST request, then start polling the status of the session upload with the GET request using the sessionUpload Id. Once the session has started processing then the sessionId field should be populated.

Thanks,

Joe Malmsten

Erik Boon

Thanks Joe, I will look into that! Although with this construction, uploading a lot of video's might become a time consuming process. But on the other hand, Panopto will be able to keep up the pace of the uploads.

Update: I tried this call and it works well! The time between uploading and starting of the processing isn't too bad so this provides a working solution. Thanks again!