How can i post video with tweepy?

[maksymkv25]

Hello, i don't find video post in tweepy doc's, is it possible?
And if so, how can i upload video?

[fitnr]

There's an open pull request (#672) languishing on this, but it's not currently part of the library. You can use the alternate version, though.

[maksymkv25]

I try it. And have some problem with posting video
video = 'E:\\example.mp4' media = api.upload_chunked(video)
got it
Media(media_id=788066364296691712, expires_after_secs=86400, media_id_string='788066364296691712', video={'video_type': 'video/mp4'}, _api=<tweepy.api.API object at 0x0000000004421C18>, size=1291103)
and how to post? can explain please?

[fitnr]

I guess the Tweepy docs are a little vague on updating with media. The Twitter docs provide some hints.

It would go like this:

media = api.upload_chunked(video)
api.update_status(status="Hello World!", media_ids=[media.media_id])

The media_ids param expects a list because one can upload up to four pictures.

[maksymkv25]

Thank's)

2016-10-18 5:30 GMT+03:00 Neil Freeman notifications@github.com:

I guess the Tweepy docs are a little vague on updating with media. The Twitter
docs https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/statuses/update
provide some hints.

It would go like this:

media = api.upload_chunked(video)
api.update_status(status="Hello World!", media_ids=[media.media_id])

The media_ids param expects a list because one can upload up to four
pictures.

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[staringispolite]

@fitnr What version is that in? I'm on 3.5.0 and I get AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'upload_chunked'

[fitnr]

It's not in any version, it's an open pull request. The one mentioned above has been superseded by #929.

[staringispolite]

Poking back in to confirm that using the branch the PR came from in #929, I was able to get video upload working. Just found the directory pip installed tweepy in, and overwrote it with the /tweepy folder from the video_upload2 branch of https://github.com/conversocial/tweepy/

Note that there's a bug in Twitter's API where a video needs to finish processing before you can successfully tweet with it. Best workaround I found was time.sleep() between the upload and status update calls https://twittercommunity.com/t/why-not-valid-video/72486/3

It would be nice to handle this more elegantly in the library if/when video gets merged in, but a 10 second sleep has been working pretty reliably for me with 30 second mp4 clips. (5 seconds wouldn't always be enough time)

[Harmon758]

Closing as duplicate of #640. See also #1180.