Overview

This is a python daemon that runs in the background, monitoring a folder for new files. When it detects a file it automatically encodes the video and uploads it to Vimeo.

• The original and encoded videos are stored in separate folders.
• If the process fails, a notification email is sent.
• The file must be unmodified for a short period before encoding will begin. This allows slow uploads or recording directly to the directory.

How to Install

git clone git@github.com:davidbartonau/vimeo-uploader.git

# Set up your config
cp uploader.conf /etc/vimeo-uploader.conf

vi /etc/vimeo-uploader.conf

# run in command line first so we can see its output, [do not run as service yet]
python3 uploader.py /etc/vimeo-uploader.conf

Prerequisites

# Need to install the following for vimeo python api
sudo apt install libssl-dev
sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt install python3-pip

Setting up python virtual environment

# Install virtualenv wrapper
python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

# cd into uploader directory

# Create virtual environment
python3 -m virtualenv env

# activate virtual environment
source ./env/bin/activate

# Install python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run as a service

For start/boot settings, Need to edit the file 'upvimeo.service' to match your directory structure and copy it to '/etc/systemd/system'

then run command

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable upvimeo.service
sudo systemctl start upvimeo