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How to guide

You can now upload your videos directly from a URL over HTTP/HTTPS into your bunny.net video library:
  1. Click the Upload a Video - drop down menu arrow.
  1. Next select the ‘Upload Video from URL’ option from the drop down menu.
  1. The ‘Upload video from URL’ popup will open.
    1. Enter or paste your Video URL and Title into the matching fields.
  2. Finally click ‘Upload Video’ to start the process of uploading directly from a URL.
Click ‘Advanced’ to input header and key values if they are needed to authenticate the HTTP/HTTPS request to download your video.
  1. The pop up window will close and your video will start uploading to your video library.
  1. Once your video has uploaded, your video will still need to process and transcode. This may take a while pending the size and duration of your video.
  2. Once finished your video is now ready for playback.

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Troubleshooting

Bunny Stream also supports authentication tokens added to the URL extension for uploading. You may experience issues with video URLs failing to upload due to authentication issues. These issues vary from platform to platform so please check your token, header values and syntax to authorize your video upload over HTTP/HTTPS. How to upload from your Dropbox account To upload videos from your Dropbox account into your bunny.net video library please ensure you are the account owner and rights owner to your video content.
  1. Login into your Dropbox account
  2. Navigate to your Video file
  3. Select the Video file you would like to upload into your bunny.net video library.
  4. Click the Copy link icon in top the right corner next to Share.
  5. Paste your Dropbox video file Linkinto your bunny.net video library via Upload from a URL form URL field within your video library
  6. Edit the Dropbox video file Link by updating ‘dl=0’ to ‘dl=1’ within your video link URL extension. Example:
    1. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k0nr5njo8hxjv31ez7hx9/example.mp4?rlkey=28mheq7emsr4tgptrc1t9e6lr&st=g611dzo4&dl=0
    2. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k0nr5njo8hxjv31ez7hx9/example.mp4?rlkey=28mheq7emsr4tgptrc1t9e6lr&st=g611dzo4&dl=1
  7. Select Upload Video
  8. Your video will start uploading.
How to upload from your Vimeo account To upload videos from your Vimeo account into your bunny.net video library please ensure you are the account owner and rights owner to your video content.
  1. Login into your Vimeo account
  2. Navigate to your Video library
  3. Select the Video you would like to upload into your bunny.net video library.
  4. Click Share dropdown arrow ‘More sharing options’ in top the right corner.
  5. Select Download A pop up menu with available resolutions to download will appear.
  6. Right click the resolution download icon you would like to upload into your bunny.net video library.
  7. Select ‘Copy link address’
  8. Paste your Vimeo video resolution download Link address into your bunny.net video library via Upload from a URL form URL field within your video library.
  9. Select Upload Video
  10. Your video will start uploading.