Is it possible to do >15MB video uploads, async, using upload_video()?

I want to upload videos to Twitter that are larger than 15MB, which is only possible using “async”.

Twython’s upload_video() method says it only supports up to 15MB, but it looks like it can maybe do async uploads, using the check_progress parameter?

But this isn’t documented in the comments or the documentation, so I’m not sure (a) how to use that, (b) if that is actually for doing async uploads, and © if it will allow the uploading of >15MB videos.

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@TariqMK this is a bit beyond the scope of this issue, but you can get a more recent version than what’s in the operating system repos by using pip or installing from source. You may want to uninstall the version you got through apt to avoid conflicts.

Forgive me if you know this, but, you can start to run into problems if you’re installing modules for your “system” Python, and you can save yourself a lot of headaches by putting each project in a virtual environment. There are a bunch of options for that and people are opinionated, but you will probably want to find one that works for you if you haven’t yet.

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Hi @philgyford:

I know it’s a fair bit later, but I ran into this issue and only solved my problem after, so I’m going to answer here in the hopes that it’s helpful to you or somebody else. If you haven’t gotten it working yet, and if you’re using Twython 3.5.0, I’d add a ‘media_category’ to your request. So in this case it would look like:

response = twitter.upload_video(media=my_video, media_type='video/mp4', media_category='tweet_video', check_progress=True)

Twitter’s documentation on this is really fuzzy, but I found that explicitly including the category was enough to make it work on longer videos.