Simple method to submit a transcoding job to the Coconut.co video transcoding service.

Submit Transcoding Job (Coconut)

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

COCONUT_API_KEY = 'asdfasdf'
AWS_ACCESS_KEY = 'AWSKEY'
AWS_SECRET_KEY = 'AWSSECRET'
AWS_OUTPUT_BUCKET = 'transcoded-videos'

def create_transcoding_job(source, webhook, outputs):
    """
        source - original url of media to be transcoded
        webhook - url for post-processing webhook
        outputs - dictionary of requested outputs. 
            eg.
                base_s3 = f's3://{AWS_ACCESS_KEY}:{AWS_SECRET_KEY}@{AWS_OUTPUT_BUCKET}'
                {
                    'mp4:720p': f'{base_s3}/transcoded_video.mp4',
                    'jpg:600x': f'{base_s3}/screenshot.jpg, number=1'
                }
    """
    headers = {'user-agent': 'Coconut (Python 3.6)'}

    config = []

    config.append(f'set source = {source}')
    config.append(f'set webhook = {webhook}')

    unsorted_outputs = []
    for format, cdn in outputs.items():
        unsorted_outputs.append(f'-> {format} = {cdn}')
    config += sorted(unsorted_outputs)

    post_config = '\n'.join(config)

    r = requests.post(
        'https://api.coconut.co/v1/job',
        data=post_config,
        headers=headers,
        auth=HTTPBasicAuth(COCONUT_API_KEY, '')
    )

    print(r.status_code)
    print(r.headers)
    print(r.text)

    return r.json()