Run this in a code step in Zapier to upload files from their public URL to a wistia Project. This allows us to bypass some of the file size and timeout issues faced when trying to upload large videos (+1GB) to Wistia via dropbox or google drive integrations. I've used Amazon s3 to store the files and serve them to Wistia.

zapier_wistia_url_upload_api.py

import requests #imports pythons requests library
import json #imports pythons json library

#grab data from previous steps in Zapier
s3URL = input_data['s3URL']
project_id = input_data['projectID']

#print these to logs for troubleshooting while building zaps
print s3URL #prints out s3 url from Airtable
print project_id #prints project ID from Airtable

#upload API call
r = requests.post('https://upload.wistia.com',
              {'url': s3URL,
               'api_password':'your_api_key_here',
               'project_id':project_id})

dataDict = json.loads(r.text) #Read the json from the text returned by the API call and store it as dataDict
print dataDict['hashed_id'] #check the hashed_id is there
hashed_id = dataDict['hashed_id'] #store hashed_id so we can pass it back to our zaps
thumb_url = dataDict['thumbnail']['url'] #store the thumbnail url so we can post that to slack
print thumb_url #print the thumb_url so we can troubleshoot in zapier

#return the hashedID and Thumbnail to our zaps
return [
    {'hashedID':hashed_id},
    {'thumbnail':thumb_url}
]