YouTube Live Streaming API

[lone fjord]

I'm trying to create a program in Java to live stream to YouTube.

Using these deps:

'com.google.oauth-client:google-oauth-client-jetty:1.35.0'
'com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.15'
'com.google.oauth-client:google-oauth-client:1.35.0'
'com.google.apis:google-api-services-youtube:v3-rev222-1.25.0'

Here's my code: https://gist.github.com/tj-wazei/2545ee160e1e545bdb94c204c4c1889f

This is my error:

{
  "code": 403,
  "errors": [
    {
      "domain": "youtube.liveBroadcast",
      "message": "Invalid transition",
      "reason": "invalidTransition",
      "extendedHelp": "https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/docs/liveBroadcasts/transition#params"
    }
  ],
  "message": "Invalid transition"
}```

[weary sky]

<@&987246964494204979> please have a look, thanks.

[lone fjord]

If it makes any difference, I'm creating the broadcast first manually within YouTube and hard coding the broadcast id in. I've hit my daily rate limit on how many broadcasts I can create via the API

[halcyon rampart]

can you pls rename the gist to have a .java extension

[lone fjord]

Done, forgot myb ;p

they have poor docs and the lib itself isn't documented. params on the methods are like var1, var2... doesn't help, I've had to do a lot of googling and broken gpt to figure it out lol

trying to reference code in other languages etc., to piece it together and i'm stuck here atm

The flow is weird too:

• Auth
• Create broadcast
• Create stream
• Bind Stream to broadcast
• Set broadcast to test
• Set broadcast to active

[halcyon rampart]

at what stage are you getting that response?

[lone fjord]

the very end

[halcyon rampart]

ok yea

[lone fjord]

LiveBroadcast liveBroadcast =
                youtube.liveBroadcasts()
                        .transition(broadcastId, part, "status")
                        .setBroadcastStatus(BroadcastStatus.TESTING.getStatus())
                        .setId(broadcastId)
                        .execute();

this changes the broadcast status to testing

at the moment it's in a "ready" status

after testing, i need to set it to "active" which means live

the part parameter, is what information you want the API to send back (who would have thought)

I think this is the issue

[halcyon rampart]

ok yeah

too much testing

lol

[lone fjord]

i mean i am just running it, getting exception, fix it, continue onto next exception 😄

there must be a developer playground?

[halcyon rampart]

on the website itself

but not in java

just some interface

and hard to test livestreaming from a playground

[lone fjord]

they suck

[halcyon rampart]

why not splitting it into a different pr

and ignore it for now?

[lone fjord]

yeah i can - its just nobody reviewing rn anyway lol

[weary sky]

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[lone fjord]

Todays quota refreshed woo, I can test this again and the error is back