Get video URLs in Wagtail API

[fabienheureux]

Hi,

Sorry to ask something maybe dumb or already done, but I was wondering if it was possible to get the video url directly into API results for a content ?

I was able (with some help from wagtaildemo repo and wagtail documentation) to setup something similar for images, but this app seems (obviously) a bit different.
Do you guys could have an idea about how to achieve this ?

I did the following for images: http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.8/advanced_topics/images/image_serve_view.html#generating-dynamic-image-urls-in-python

I did look into the wagtailvideos code, but didn't find such a function (and it is a bit more complicated with various transcoded versions). As you could understand, I am quite new to django/wagtail universe, so sorry again if this is a dumb question.

Thanks a lot in advance
(and thanks @TakeFlight for the work done on every wagtail apps, almost each one really rocks !)

Regards
Fab

[fabienheureux]

I thought of trying to implement this: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/blob/master/wagtail/wagtailimages/views/serve.py into wagtailvideos, will update if I get something :)

[mx-moth]

I don't have much experience with the Wagtail API, but it will not have to be integrated in the same way as wagtailimages. The complicating factor with wagtailimages is the resizing step - allowing people to resize any image with any filter would open a potential DDoS vector. The same is not true of wagtailvideos, as all the transcoding is done in a separate process. The URL of the video file should be accessible as video.file.url, and for each of the transcoded videos with something like:

for transcode in video.transcodes.all():
    transcode.file.url

Does this help?

[fabienheureux]

Hi @timheap, thanks for your answer, in fact it does help a lot. I will try to implement it and get back with my solution here (if it can help others).

Btw, do you know the status on this issue: #9 ?

[mx-moth]

#9 is a feature we would like to have, but we currently have no time to implement. No one is working on it yet.

[fabienheureux]

Closing with no addition because @timheap answer was perfectly accurate.
Thanks.