"The validation of media ids failed." Error Code 324

[technotip]

@jason_rea, I din’t give much details because I think it’s a problem with Twitter API. Because, the code I’ve works fine in localhost, but doesn’t work when the app is hosted. Everything else works fine, except the image upload

Am using the following code:

authoVariable.post('media/upload', 
                      {'media': fs.readFileSync(req.files[file].path, { encoding: 'base64' })}, 
                       function(error, params, response){
                              if(error) console.log("media/upload error 1 "+error);
 });

am getting error media/upload error 1 Error: Status Code: 400

[jason_rea]

Give us some request/response data, such as the data that is in my original post in this thread that I gathered with Fiddler. Do you have What makes you assume that it is a probblem with Twitter’s API? Obviously your code works if it runs on local host. Do you configure your app to point to your hosted environment?

[jason_rea]

***Do you have remote debugging?

[technotip]

Yes I’ve configured my app to point to the hosted environment. Every other API request I make to Twitter works very well, except the image this media upload thing.

As the same code works on localhost and not on the actual domain, I don’t find what I need to change at my end

So just checking if it’s working for anyone on their actual server?

[jason_rea]

It is working for me in a hosted environment. The only way I experience errors is with images that exceed 3MB or with expired OAuth tokens. I’ll ask again, respectfully, for a 3rd time: Can you give any more detail, perhaps request/response data when the error occurs? There is absolutely no way we can help when all you give us is “a 400 error when not in localhost.” You can’t just go around blaming stuff on Twitter when you have no facts to back it up. I was extremely detailed in my original post, which was my responsibility when I claimed that something was amiss with Twitter’s API. Give us your full code, along with request/response in Fiddler, and maybe we can help.

[webKnjaZ]

Hi,

I experience the same issue while using https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

[andypiper]

Are your images larger than 3Mb in size?

[webKnjaZ]

No, I reduced image size to 2.84Mb
Perhaps it’s happening because image resolution is 5076x7520.

[vic_env]

Guys, our multiple posts with image attachments are facing the same error. All images are size less than 3MB, I double checked. Please help us figure out what is happening !!!

Sample Image: https://nbcnascartalk.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/cd0ymzcznguwzdbhnduynddiytjhm2yyzthlmtjjotqwyyznptg5mjdmy2m3mme2mmiwyti2nwy2yzfknjdjzti5owzi-e1427150122505.jpeg
Error: Twitter::Error::BadRequest: The validation of media ids failed.

[jason_rea]

If I had to guess on this one, it’s because the dimensions are too big. Try a smaller image and see what happens.

[vic_env]

Thanks Jason_rea it worked but how do I know what are the dimensions limit so we are not sending images which will hit the limit? I could not find any information in the docs … Am I missing something?

[jason_rea]

You are not missing something. Twitter has little to no documentation about the media upload endpoint and what it returns. In fact, this thread proves that it returns a success response and media_ids for media that cannot be attached to a tweet. @andypiper has promised to update the documentation and possibly the upload api at some point.

[samyoul]

This post was extremely useful, the problem for me was posting more than 4 image to a tweet.

[andypiper]

You may not add more than 4 images to a Tweet.

[jasonhargrove]

I’m getting 324 as well, attempting to use base64 and upload a single image.

It’s bizarre because the first time I ran the code this afternoon, it worked. All subsequent attempts now throw this “validations of media ids failed” code 324.

{ image: { w: 500, h: 500, image_type: 'image/jpeg' }, media_id: 596406498458267600, media_id_string: '596406498458267648', size: 57691 }

[jasonhargrove]

Ok I just noticed that the media_id and media_id_string are returning as different values. Confirmed again just now, and using _string worked. They should be the same, Twitter, no?

{ image: { w: 500, h: 500, image_type: 'image/jpeg' }, media_id: 596476242246946800, media_id_string: '596476242246946817', size: 68421 }

Update: checked the docs to be sure and they should be the same. Opened a new topic; unsure how to file a bug report: Media Upload returning different media_id and media_id_string today

[abraham]

media_id_string is included because some languages can’t handle numbers that large. You can read about it here: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/twitter-ids-json-and-snowflake

[jasonhargrove]

This may be helpful to others getting this somewhat mysterious error. In the link above it points out that JSON consumers can expect unexpected results in media_id and that media_id_string should be used instead.

[fluidsonic]

We also got error 324 when sharing photo, url & text with iOS’ Twitter share dialog.
In our case the issue was that the photo (taken shortly before posting the tweet) was all black.
Maybe Twitter hangs up for some images or it rejects images with too little distinct colors in it?

[mfressdorf]

thanks, this solved the 324 for me!