Save video to the gallery and get the path for the video stored to Gallery

Question

I want to save a video chosen from UIImagePickerController to the Photos album. After that i need to fetch the URL to the saved path. I saw some pre-existing questions which answer with use of ALAssetsLibrary which is now deprecated. Like : Save video on the gallery and store the path to the video

Can someone please guide me to use Photo's framework and achieve the above desired result. Kindly correct me if I am wrong anywhere.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

This worked for me perfectly.

Swift 3.1 ->

PHPhotoLibrary.shared().performChanges({
            PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromVideo(atFileURL: url!)
}) { saved, error in
            if saved {
                let fetchOptions = PHFetchOptions()
                fetchOptions.sortDescriptors = [NSSortDescriptor(key: "creationDate", ascending: true)]

                // After uploading we fetch the PHAsset for most recent video and then get its current location url

                let fetchResult = PHAsset.fetchAssets(with: .video, options: fetchOptions).lastObject 
                PHImageManager().requestAVAsset(forVideo: fetchResult!, options: nil, resultHandler: { (avurlAsset, audioMix, dict) in
                    let newObj = avurlAsset as! AVURLAsset
                    print(newObj.url) 
                    // This is the URL we need now to access the video from gallery directly.
                    })
            }
}