Merge pull request #428 from tushdante/tushdante-video-upload

added media_category and support for STATUS calls

twython/endpoints.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
 import os
 import warnings
 from io import BytesIO
+from time import sleep
 #try:
     #from StringIO import StringIO
 #except ImportError:
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ class EndpointsMixin(object):
 
         return self.post('https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json', params=params)
 
-    def upload_video(self, media, media_type, size=None):
+    def upload_video(self, media, media_type, media_category=None, size=None, check_progress=False):
         """Uploads video file to Twitter servers in chunks. The file will be available to be attached
         to a status for 60 minutes. To attach to a update, pass a list of returned media ids
         to the 'update_status' method using the 'media_ids' param.
@@ -174,7 +175,8 @@ class EndpointsMixin(object):
         params = {
             'command': 'INIT',
             'media_type': media_type,
-            'total_bytes': size
+            'total_bytes': size,
+            'media_category': media_category
         }
         response_init = self.post(upload_url, params=params)
         media_id = response_init['media_id']
@@ -203,7 +205,38 @@ class EndpointsMixin(object):
             'command': 'FINALIZE',
             'media_id': media_id
         }
-        return self.post(upload_url, params=params)
+
+        response = self.post(upload_url, params=params)
+
+        # Only get the status if explicity asked to 
+        # Default to False
+        if check_progress:
+
+            # Stage 4: STATUS call if still processing
+            params = {
+                'command': 'STATUS',
+                'media_id': media_id
+            }
+
+            # added code to handle if media_category is NOT set and check_progress=True
+            # the API will return a NoneType object in this case
+            try:
+                processing_state = response.get('processing_info').get('state')
+            except AttributeError:
+                return response
+
+            if processing_state:
+                while (processing_state == 'pending' or processing_state == 'in_progress') :
+                    # get the secs to wait
+                    check_after_secs = response.get('processing_info').get('check_after_secs')
+
+                    if check_after_secs:
+                        sleep(check_after_secs)
+                        response = self.get(upload_url, params=params)
+                        # get new state after waiting
+                        processing_state = response.get('processing_info').get('state')
+
+        return response
 
     def get_oembed_tweet(self, **params):
         """Returns information allowing the creation of an embedded