Uploads a video to Vimeo using https://github.com/dkm/python-vimeo

vimeo_api.py

import os
import time
import urllib2

try:
    import simplejson as json
except ImportError:
    import json

import vimeo
from vimeo.convenience import VimeoUploader

from django.core.mail import mail_managers

from mezzanine.conf import settings


def upload(file_path, title):
    '''
    Given a file path uploads a video to vimeo and returns it's vimeo id
    '''
    client = vimeo.VimeoClient(
        key=settings.VIMEO_API_KEY,
        secret=settings.VIMEO_API_SECRET,
        token=settings.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN,
        token_secret=settings.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
        format="json")

    quota = client.vimeo_videos_upload_getQuota()
    # mail managers if space is running out
    if (int(quota['upload_space']['free']) / (1024 * 1024)) < 1000:
        mail_managers('YSYS - Vimeo running out of space',
                      'While uploading a video Vimeo reported that the '
                      'Vimeo account has less than 1GB of space left.')

    f = open(file_path)
    # mail managers if Vimeo is out of space
    if int(quota['upload_space']['free'] < os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size):
        mail_managers('YSYS - Vimeo out of space',
                      'While attempting to upload a video, Vimeo reported '
                      'that the Vimeo account does not have enough space.')
        return False
    #print "Your current quota is", int(quota['upload_space']['free']) / (1024 * 1024), "MiB"

    t = client.vimeo_videos_upload_getTicket()
    #print t
    vup = VimeoUploader(client, t, quota=quota)
    vup.upload(file_path)
    retval = vup.complete()
    #print retval
    vid = retval['video_id']

    # do we need to wait a bit for vimeo servers ?
    time.sleep(5)

    client.vimeo_videos_setTitle(video_id=vid, title=title)
    #client.vimeo_videos_setPrivacy(video_id=vid, privacy="anybody")
    #client.vimeo_videos_setDescription(description, vid)
    return vid


def get_thumbnail(vid):
    '''
    Returns the thumbnail of Vimeo video
    '''
    client = vimeo.VimeoClient(
        key=settings.VIMEO_API_KEY,
        secret=settings.VIMEO_API_SECRET,
        token=settings.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN,
        token_secret=settings.VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
        format="json")

    data = client.vimeo_videos_getInfo(video_id=vid)

    thumbnail = ''
    width = 0
    #print data[0]
    for thumb in data[0]['thumbnails']['thumbnail']:
        if int(thumb['width']) > width:
            width = int(thumb['width'])
            thumbnail = thumb['_content']
        if thumb['width'] == "640":
            thumbnail = thumb['_content']
            break
    thumbnail = thumbnail.replace('\\', '')
    return thumbnail


if __name__ == "__main__":
    upload()