spaw 0.2

SPAW is an Unofficial Streamable API Wrapper for Python

Streamable API Wrapper (SPAW)

SPAW is an Unoffical Streamable API wrapper for Python.

Streamable API Documentation

https://streamable.com/documentation

Requirments

Python 3.5+

The following modules are also used:

requests
json

Usage

Install through pip

pip3 install spaw

To initialize an instance:

import spaw  

spaw.SPAW() 

Authentication

Streamable uses Basic Auth for their API.
As such the Streamable API requires Authentication to Upload/Import a video or to Retrieve a video in raw mp4 embed format.
Only Retrieving a video in oEmbed format is allowed without Authentication.
To authenticate:

SPAW.auth(email, password)

Where the arguments are the email and password of your Streamable account.

Import a Video

Takes in given URL of a video and imports/uploads it onto Streamable.

SPAW.videoImport(url)

Returns JSON with Shortcode and Status

{'status': 1, 'shortcode': 'code'}

The link to the video will be https://streamable.com/code

Upload a Video

Takes in given filename for a video and uploads it onto Streamable.

SPAW.videoUpload(filename)

Returns JSON with Shortcode and Status just like importVideo()

Retrieve a Video

Retrieves a Streamable video as embed code given the shortcode of video URL.
The embed video can be retrieved as oEmbed or a raw mp4. by default set to 'raw'.

SPAW.retrieve(shortcode,format)

Returns JSON for the embed code for the video.
for e.g.
SPAW.retrieve('moo', 'oEmbed')
Returns

{"provider_url": "https://streamable.com", "html": "<iframe class=\"streamable-embed\" src=\"https://streamable.com/o/moo\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" allowfullscreen></iframe>", "version": "1.0", "title": "\"Please don't eat me!\"", "type": "video", "provider_name": "Streamable", "thumbnail_url": "//images.streamable.com/west/image/f6441ae0c84311e4af010bc47400a0a4.jpg?height=100", "width": 852, "height": 480}