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How to upload user photos and video to major hosting sites without having to do user authentication
upload, pictures, video
Updated Jan 31, 2011 by ninabi...@gmail.com

So it turns out that uploading pictures and videos from mobile is super easy -- no login/authentication required!

How to upload videos to Youtube

  1. User has their own youtube account
  2. User gets the mobile email upload link from their account info (see below image)
  3. Videos are emailed to the above email from the phone
  4. Videos are now hosted on youtube! Hooray!
    • Assuming Flash can embed youtube videos, all the front end would need is the public video link

Uploading pictures

It turns out that Flickr has a similar service where mobile users can email their pictures to a unique email, which then uploads the pictures to their account. This feature is probably available is most of the popular media hosting sites.

Using this info in the app

We can ask the users what their unique email address is for their associated picture/video accounts in an initial setup phase. Once the user has entered this info, they should never have to do it again, unless they were purposefully trying to change the email to reflect a new account or something.

Screenshot of the youtube email upload page

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