Upload video file with Python TwitterAPI package.

twitter_media_upload.py

import os
import sys
from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

twitter = TwitterAPI(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

VIDEO_FILENAME = 'path/to/video/file'

bytes_sent = 0
total_bytes = os.path.getsize(VIDEO_FILENAME)
file = open(VIDEO_FILENAME, 'rb')

def check_status(r):
    if r.status_code < 200 or r.status_code > 299:
        print(r.status_code)
        print(r.text)
        sys.exit(0)

# initialize media upload and get a media reference ID in the response
r = twitter.request('media/upload', {'command':'INIT', 'media_type':'video/mp4', 'total_bytes':total_bytes})
check_status(r)

media_id = r.json()['media_id']
segment_id = 0

# start chucked upload
while bytes_sent < total_bytes:
  chunk = file.read(4*1024*1024)
  
  # upload chunk of byets (5mb max)
  r = twitter.request('media/upload', {'command':'APPEND', 'media_id':media_id, 'segment_index':segment_id}, {'media':chunk})
  check_status(r)
  segment_id = segment_id + 1
  bytes_sent = file.tell()
  print('[' + str(total_bytes) + ']', str(bytes_sent))

# finalize the upload
r = twitter.request('media/upload', {'command':'FINALIZE', 'media_id':media_id})
check_status(r)

# post Tweet with media ID from previous request
r = twitter.request('statuses/update', {'status':'Video uploaded from python script.', 'media_ids':media_id})
check_status(r)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/shyal/dev/monolith/scripts/twitter/upload.py", line 36, in
r = twitter.request('media/upload', {'command':'APPEND', 'media_id':media_id, 'segment_index':segment_id}, {'media':chunk})
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/TwitterAPI/TwitterAPI.py", line 193, in request
raise TwitterConnectionError(e)
TwitterAPI.TwitterError.TwitterConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', timeout('The write operation timed out'))