Wystia - Wistia API Helper

A Python wrapper library for the Wistia API

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://wystia.readthedocs.io.
• Wistia Developer Docs: https://wistia.com/support/developers.

Installation

The Wystia library is available on PyPI, and can be installed with pip:

$ pip install wystia

You'll also need to create an access token as outlined in the docs.

Usage

Sample usage with the Data API:

Note: The following example makes use of WistiaApi, which is an alias to the class WistiaDataApi.

from wystia import WistiaApi
from wystia.models import SortBy, LanguageCode, Customizations, Private

# Setup the Wistia API token to use for requests. You can alternatively
# set this via the env variable 'WISTIA_API_TOKEN'.
WistiaApi.configure('MY-TOKEN')

# Retrieve a list of all projects in the Wistia account,
# sorted A-Z and in ascending order.
projects = WistiaApi.list_all_projects(SortBy.NAME)
project_ids = [p.hashed_id for p in projects]
# Print the project data as a prettified JSON string
print(projects.prettify())

# Retrieve a list of videos for a Wistia project.
# Note: If you don't require asset info (such as ADs) on each
#   video, I suggest calling `list_project` instead.
videos = WistiaApi.list_videos('project-id')

# Retrieve info on a particular video
vd = WistiaApi.get_video('video-id')
# If the video has captions, that won't be included in the `Medias#show`
# response by default, so we'll need a separate API call as below.
# vd.process_captions(
#     WistiaApi.list_captions(real_video_id))
print(vd)

# Update attributes on a media (video), or set a custom thumbnail on the video.
WistiaApi.update_video(
    'video-id',
    thumbnail_media_id='uploaded-thumbnail-id'
)

# Get aggregated stats for a video, such as view count
stats = WistiaApi.get_stats_for_video('video-id')

# Retrieve the customization data for a video
customizations = WistiaApi.get_customizations('video-id')

# Update only specific customizations for a video
# Note the embed options are documented here:
#   https://wistia.com/support/developers/embed-options
sample_embed_options = Customizations(
    player_color='#e7fad1',
    # Hide comments on the media page
    private=Private(show_comments=False)
)
WistiaApi.update_customizations('video-id', sample_embed_options)

# Get the Spanish captions on a video
captions = WistiaApi.get_captions('video-id', LanguageCode.SPANISH)

# Add (or replace) the English captions on a video
WistiaApi.update_captions(
    'video-id',
    LanguageCode.ENGLISH,
    srt_file='path/to/file.srt'
)

... or to upload media via the Upload API:

from wystia import WistiaUploadApi

# Upload a file to a (default) project on Wistia
r = WistiaUploadApi.upload_file('path/to/my-file.mp4')
# Check if the video was successfully uploaded
# assert r.created
# assert r.name == 'my-file.mp4'

# Uploads with a public link to a video, such as
# an S3 pre-signed url.
r = WistiaUploadApi.upload_link('my-s3-link',
                                title='My Video Name',
                                description='My Description')

... you can alternatively retrieve asset info via the public Media Embed link:

from wystia import WistiaEmbedApi

# Get the media embed data
embed_data = WistiaEmbedApi.get_data('video-id')

# Retrieve the source URL of the original media
source_url = WistiaEmbedApi.asset_url(media_data=embed_data)

... when using the Data API, the WistiaHelper can help to further simplify some calls:

from wystia import WistiaHelper

# Check if the video exists in your Wistia account
assert WistiaHelper.video_exists('abc1234567')

# Check if a video's name indicates the video is an archived copy of an
# existing video, as discussed in the below article on replacing a media:
#   https://wistia.com/learn/product-updates/improved-library-management-tools
assert WistiaHelper.is_archived_video(
    'My Title [Archived on August 13, 2015]')

# Update the player color on a video
WistiaHelper.customize_video_on_wistia('video-id', 'ffffcc')

# Individually enable captions / AD in the player for a video
WistiaHelper.enable_ad('video-id')
WistiaHelper.enable_captions('video-id', on_by_default=False)

# Disable captions / AD in the player for a video
if WistiaHelper.has_captions_enabled('video-id'):
    print('Disabling captions and AD for the video')
    WistiaHelper.disable_captions_and_ad('video-id')

Getting Started

Using the methods on the API classes assume your Wistia API token has previously been configured, for example via the environment. The API token will then be used globally by all the API classes when making requests to the Wistia API.

You can set the following environment variable with your API token:

• WISTIA_API_TOKEN

Another option is to use the global configure method as shown below:

WistiaDataApi.configure('MY-API-TOKEN')

There is additionally a Quickstart section in the docs which walks through - in more detail - how to get up and running with the Wystia library.

Data API

The wrapper class WistiaDataApi (aliased to WistiaApi) interacts with the Wistia Data API (docs below):

• https://wistia.com/support/developers/data-api

It fully implements the following sections in the API documentation:

• Paging and Sorting Responses
• Projects
• Medias
• Customizations
• Captions

The following sections in the API have not been implemented (mainly as I haven't used them before):

• Project Sharings
• Account

Tips

Containers

In general, the API methods that begin with list - such as list_project - will return a Container object, which essentially acts as a thin wrapper around a collection of model classes. For all intents and purposes, this behaves exactly the same as a list object.

One of the main benefits is that it implements a __str__ method, which leverages the builtin pprint module in Python to pretty-print the Python object representation of each model or dataclass instance; this will format the output more nicely, for example whenever print(obj) is called on the Container result.

The Container objects also implement the following convenience methods, which can be used to easily display the JSON string representation of the list of dataclass instances:

• to_json - Convert the list of instances to a JSON string.
• prettify - Convert the list of instances to a prettified JSON string.

List Medias in a Project

If you need to retrieve info on videos in a project and you don't need complete info such as a list of assets for the video, I recommend using list_project instead of list_videos. This is because the Projects#show API returns up to 500 results per request, whereas the Medias#list only returns the default 100 results per page.

Assuming a project in your Wistia account has a total of about 250 media, here is the number of API calls you might expect from each individual approach:

from wystia import WistiaDataApi

videos = WistiaDataApi.list_videos('project-id')
assert WistiaDataApi.request_count() == 3

# Resets request count for the next call
WistiaDataApi.reset_request_count()

videos = WistiaDataApi.list_project('project-id')
assert WistiaDataApi.request_count() == 1

Thread Safety

The Wistia API classes are completely thread safe, since requests.Session objects are not re-used between API calls.

This means that if you have two (un-related) API operations to perform, such as updating a video's title and adding captions on the video, then you can certainly run those calls in parallel so that they complete a bit faster.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.