Upload a media file and get back its identifiers, including a media_key. The media field carries the file content base64-encoded in JSON bodies (raw bytes in multipart bodies); media_category is tweet_image, tweet_video, or tweet_gif for posts and ads, dm_image/dm_video/dm_gif for DMs, or subtitles. For X Ads accounts, register the returned media_key via create_media_library_item to add it to the account's media library and use it in campaigns.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.x.com/2/media/upload \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "media": "<string>",
  "additional_owners": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload"

payload = {
    "media": "<string>",
    "additional_owners": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({media: '<string>', additional_owners: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/media/upload', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'media' => '<string>',
    'additional_owners' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"media\": \"<string>\",\n  \"additional_owners\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.x.com/2/media/upload")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"media\": \"<string>\",\n  \"additional_owners\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.x.com/2/media/upload")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"media\": \"<string>\",\n  \"additional_owners\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "expires_after_secs": 123,
    "image": {
      "h": 123,
      "image_type": "<string>",
      "w": 123
    },
    "media_key": "<string>",
    "processing_info": {
      "check_after_secs": 123,
      "progress_percent": 123,
      "state": "<string>"
    },
    "size": 123,
    "video": {
      "video_type": "<string>"
    }
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "<string>",
      "resource_type": "<string>",
      "title": "<string>",
      "type": "https://api.x.com/2/problems/resource-not-found",
      "parameter": "<string>",
      "resource_id": "<string>",
      "status": 123,
      "value": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>"
}