API.media_upload still doesn't allow uploading animated GIFs > 5 MB in size.

[tanjyeyee]

I've updated my Tweepy to the latest version (3.10.0).

When I try to upload an animated GIF that's larger than 5 MB, I get the following error:

TweepError([{'code': 324, 'message': 'Image file size must be <= 5242880 bytes'}])

Which is super-strange, because I dove into api.py and confirmed that it should allow animated GIFs up to 15 MB in size.

My files are definitely GIF mimetype, file extension .gif.

I also did this:

import imghdr

print(imghdr.what('<path to my GIF file>')

It spit out 'gif' and so should allow a higher file size limit in both media_upload() and also _pack_image() in api.py.

Am I missing something here?

[tanjyeyee]

Actually, I discovered that the error occurred because Tweepy uses the wrong endpoint to try to upload GIFs >5 MB in size.

According to the Twitter API documentation, you have to use chunked media upload to upload larger GIFs, instead of the regular media upload endpoint: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/media/upload-media/api-reference/post-media-upload

("Please note that to upload videos or GIFs (tweet_video, amplify_video, and tweet_gif), you need to use the chunked upload end-point.")

Can someone fix this bug?

[Harmon758]

The video-upload branch / pull request #1486 should resolve this and should be complete now.
Any feedback or review would be appreciated.

[pifragile]

still having this issue, any update? i installed tweepy directly from github:
pip install git+https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git

i use the following code:

	media_id = api.media_upload('XYZ.gif').media_id
	api.update_status(status, media_ids=[media_id])

and i get:

tweepy.errors.BadRequest: 400 Bad Request
324 - Image file size must be <= 5242880 bytes

[Harmon758]

That is an error from Twitter and is different from this issue involving chunked media upload.

From the Animated GIF recommendations section of the Twitter API documentation's Media Best Practices guide for uploading media:

In order to process larger GIFs, use the chunked upload endpoint with the media_category parameter. This allows the server to process the GIF file asynchronously, which is a requirement for processing larger files. Pass media_category=tweet_gif to enable async upload behavior for Tweets with an animated GIF.

For more information, see that section and the Media Categories section of that documentation.