+ # The twitter-api 'conveniently' parses this for you and
+ # throws away the actual video URLs, so we have to take the
+ # JSON and reparse it :sadpanda:
+ # This is particularly annoying because we don't know
+ # for sure that status.media and the JSON 'media' entry
+ # have the same elements in the same order. Probably they
+ # do but maybe twitter-api randomly reorganised things or
+ # filtered the list or something. So instead we go through
+ # the JSON and handle the media urls, discarding whatever
+ # unfortunate thing we have put in replacements already.
+ parsed_tweet = json.loads(status.AsJsonString())
+ for medium in parsed_tweet.get('media', []):
+ if medium['type'] == 'video':
+ best = { 'bitrate': -1 }
+ for vt in medium['video_info']['variants']:
+ if (vt.get('content_type') == 'video/mp4' and
+ vt.get('bitrate', -1) > best['bitrate']):
+ best = vt
+ if 'url' in best:
+ video_url = best['url'].split('?',1)[0]
+ duration = medium['video_info']['duration_millis']
+ # ^ duration_millis is a string
+ duration = "%.1f" % (float(duration)/1000.)
+ video_desc = "%s (%ss)" % (video_url, duration)
+ replacements[medium['url']] = [video_desc]