A Python module for the Zencoder API
Install from PyPI using easy_install: easy_install zencoder or with pip: pip install zencoder
zencoder-py depends on httplib2, and uses the json module.
Install httplib2 with pip or easy_install.
pip install httplib2
from zencoder import Zencoder
zen = Zencoder('abc123') # enter your api key
# creates an encoding job with the defaults
job = zen.job.create('http://input-file/movie.avi')
print job.code
print job.body
print job.body['id']
# get the transcode progress of the first output
progress = zen.output.progress(job.body['outputs'][0]['id'])
print progress.body
# configure your outputs with dictionaries
iphone = {
'label': 'iPhone',
'url': 's3://output-bucket/output-file-1.mp4',
'width': 480,
'height': 320
}
web = {
'label': 'web',
'url': 's3://output-bucket/output-file.vp8',
'video_codec':, 'vp8'
}
# the outputs kwarg requires an iterable
outputs = (iphone, web)
another_job = zen.job.create(input_url, outputs=outputs)
Note: If you set the ZENCODER_API_KEY environment variable to your api key, you don't have to provide it when initializing Zencoder.