PostUpdate with mp4 file fails with error code 324 (Duration too long, maximum:30000)

[nishant842]

When trying to upload an mp4 file with duration 70 seconds PostUpdate fails with

TwitterError: [{'code': 324, 'message': 'Duration too long, maximum:30000, actual:77000 (MediaId: snf:1240015325195915269)'}

I believe twitter allows uploading file upto 140 seconds long. Any ideas why this is failing? I am able to upload 30 second files.

[jnzst]

I kind of solved this in two steps.

I added media_category = 'tweet_video' to the PostUpdate, but that fails with "Not valid video" message.

https://sidneyochieng.co.ke/2019/05/uploading-videos-longer-that-30-seconds-to-twitter-using-twython/

I then added time.sleep(5) in api.py before resp = self._RequestUrl(url, 'POST', data=parameters) near the end PostUpdate. The video is apparently still being processed so the sleep is necessary. This now works.

https://github.com/liu044100/SocialVideoHelper/issues/10

There is doubtlessly a more correct way of solving this.

[your-diary]

The official documentation Media Best Practices - Twitter Developer says

Duration must be between 0.5 seconds and 140 seconds

, meaning Twitter API itself does support uploading videos longer than 30 seconds. So it would be nice if python-twitter supported it. (Or perhaps it is already implemented in python-twitter but we're calling incorrect functions?)

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My current workaround (which doesn't require editing the source code of python-twitter):

def upload_(self, tweet_content: str, filepath: str) -> None:
    video_id: int = self.twitter_client.UploadMediaChunked(media = filepath, media_category = 'tweet_video')
    time.sleep(10) #Waits until the async processing of the uploaded media finishes and `video_id` becomes valid.
    self.twitter_client.PostUpdate(status = tweet_content, media = video_id)