My agents upload their own media to BlackOps now
No more upload link and a person clicking Done
When one of my agents made an image or a video, getting it into BlackOps still needed a person. The agent got back an upload link, and then someone (me) had to open it, drop the file in, and click Done. The agent did the work and then sat there waiting on me.
That changed today. The agent now hands BlackOps a link to the file and BlackOps pulls it in itself. It gets back a media ID in the same call, and that ID attaches straight to a tweet or a post.
BlackOps only fetches https links and won't touch private network or cloud metadata addresses. Images are capped at 50 MB, videos at 1 GB, and it gives up on a fetch after 15 seconds.
Big videos go straight up from the agent too. If the agent has its own computer, it uploads the file to a presigned URL (a one-time upload address) and finalizes it with the token that came with it. No login, no person.
So the whole loop from generated file to attached post runs without me in it. The video above went into this post that way, through a link and an ID.
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