Create Media

Adds a media item to a location.

Specify sourceUrl, a publicly reachable URL that Google fetches the image from. The URL has to stay reachable until Google has fetched it. Returns the created item, including the media key needed to delete it.

Two things to plan for:

• Google doesn't deduplicate by URL. Calling this twice with the same sourceUrl creates two media items, so track what you've already added.
• Google allows about 10 edits per minute per Business Profile, and that budget covers every write to the profile: adding and deleting media, but also Update Google Location and Update Location Attributes. Interleaving those with media writes brings the 429 closer, so pace the profile as a whole rather than each method separately. Treat a 429 as worth retrying after a delay rather than as a rejection of the image.

This method doesn't pace itself, so use it for single changes. To add several photos at once, call Bulk Create Media Uploads instead. That queues the whole set and applies it to Google gradually, which is what the per-minute budget makes necessary.

Errors:

• NOT_FOUND: the location isn't recorded for this site. Google isn't called.
• GOOGLE_API_CALL_FAILED: the call to Google failed. Google's status and response are in the error payload.