Uploading image to Twitter (Twitter API with node.js) timeout issue

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Hello,

I’ve got a piece of node.js code created from the snippets I found in other threads which is supposed to upload pictures to Twitter to be used in the next step to create the tweet with media. It works for small-size images, but for the bigger ones (mine will be approx 4mbs png files) I am getting timeout errors.

I’d appreciate any help with that - Twitter accepts bigger files than those I want to upload and it is a smooth and fast process in Twitter clients that must be using the API too.

The code I put into the step to upload an image:

import axios from 'axios';
import { axios as platformAxios } from '@pipedream/platform';

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    twitter: {
      type: 'app',
      app: 'twitter'
    },
    url: {
      type: 'string',
      label: "Photo URL",
      description: 'Full URL to the image to download then upload to a Tweet',
    },
    media_type: {
      type: 'string',
      label: "Media Type",
      description: 'The MIME type of the media being uploaded. See https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/media/upload-media/api-reference/post-media-upload-init'
    }
  },
  async run({ props, $set }) {
    const oauthSignerUri = this.twitter.$auth.oauth_signer_uri;
    const token = {
      key: this.twitter.$auth.oauth_access_token,
      secret: this.twitter.$auth.oauth_refresh_token,
    };
    const signConfig = {
      token,
      oauthSignerUri
    };

    const imageResponse = await axios({
      url: this.url,
      method: "GET",
      responseType: "arraybuffer"
    });

    const file = Buffer.from(imageResponse.data, 'binary');
    const total_bytes = file.length;
    const base64EncodedFile = file.toString('base64');
    const media_type = this.media_type;

    const mediaUploadInitRequest = {
      method: 'POST',
      data: '',
      url: "https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json",
      params: {
        command: "INIT",
        total_bytes,
        media_type,
      }
    };

    const uploadMediaInitResponse = await platformAxios(props, mediaUploadInitRequest, signConfig);
    console.log(uploadMediaInitResponse);
    const mediaIdString = uploadMediaInitResponse.media_id_string;
    
    
    const splitStringRe = new RegExp('.{1,' + 5000 + '}', 'g');
    const chunks = base64EncodedFile.match(splitStringRe);

    for (const [segment_index, media_data] of chunks.entries()) {
      console.log(`Processing chunk ${segment_index}`);

      const mediaUploadAppendRequest = {
        method: 'POST',
        data: '',
        url: "https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json",
        params: {
          command: "APPEND",
          media_id: mediaIdString,
          segment_index,
          media_data,
        }
      };

      await platformAxios(props, mediaUploadAppendRequest, signConfig);
    }

    const mediaUploadFinalizeRequest = {
      method: 'POST',
      data: '',
      url: "https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json",
      params: {
        command: "FINALIZE",
        media_id: mediaIdString,
      }
    };

    await platformAxios(props, mediaUploadFinalizeRequest, signConfig);
  },
});