Tweet mp4 files with tweepy

Question

Hey I'd like to tweet a mp4 file generated using ffmpeg to twitter. However it seems that there's no real native way to do this with the official tweepy. When tried with the api.update_with_media(filename, message) method, you'll get an error, unsupported file 'video/mp4'

So first I saw a discussion where this github project was linked: Github link

But after testing out the code, the app crashs after the first INIT phase.

So next I saw this: Github pull request thread

And on that thread it was announced that there is a code to tweet video but it hasn't officialy been merged yet, and braian87b made a fork of tweepy with the code to upload videos.

However I have no idea how to install and use a fork of tweepy and how to actually use the code to tweet a video. Braian87b used this as an example code:

upload_result = api.media_upload('/home/user/video.mp4')
api.update_status(status="test tweet", media_ids=[upload_result.media_id_string])

Any help would be apreciated! :)

Answer 1

In the end I managed to understand it. Making a fork of my own (as the one braian87b provided was incompatible with the latest version of pip, which is what I used to install it), I was able to install the forked tweepy by using pip

pip install git+https://github.com/Spyder-exe/tweepy.git

and then the code that braian87b provided was in the end perectly good! So using this code

upload_result = api.media_upload('/home/user/video.mp4')
api.update_status(status="test tweet", media_ids=[upload_result.media_id_string])

And making sure to put the reply_to_status_id tag before the media_ids tag, I was able to upload videos to twitter with only minor annoyances.