Upload videos to Vimeo using NodeJS, ExpressJS and TypeScript

Small project with the objective to show how to upload a video to vimeo using its api.

It was developed using:

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• TypeScript
• Axios

How to execute the project?

Clone the project, move into, install the necessary packages and run the command to start the server.

$ git clone https://github.com/Remy349/upload-videos-vimeo-node.git

$ cd upload-videos-vimeo-node/

$ npm i

$ npm run dev

> upload-videos-vimeo-node@1.0.0 dev
> nodemon src/app.ts

[nodemon] 3.1.4
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: ts,json
[nodemon] starting `ts-node src/app.ts`

Server is running at http://localhost:3000

After you have done this you can try uploading videos to vimeo through the following api path:

Method	Route	Description
post	/api/videos/upload	Upload a file(video) to the server path to be processed and sent to vimeo

For the server to work smoothly you must create a vimeo account in order to get an access token which is used to interact with the vimeo api and be able to upload videos to their platform. Once the token is obtained create a .env file in the root of the project and put inside the access token of your vimeo account:

VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token_here

Reference links

• Vimeo platform
• Upload videos to Vimeo using NodeJS, ExpressJS and TypeScript