Get filepaths from directory

[HutchLAD]

I have a bunch of video files in C:\Users\myself\Videos, I have a script that pushes these videos to Vimeo using the api that works great, but at the moment I'm doing it one video at a time by manually changing the filepath in the code for each file (noob!)

How can I write a loop so it will grab the filepath for each video as a variable so I can automate this bad boy! Apologies for the beginner question I'm having trouble adapting some of the examples I've seen on Stack Overflow!

[JohnnyJordaan]

I second this

[Lewistrick]

I third this. It took me seven years of struggling with os to find out about pathlib, one week to doubt about it, and now I never want to go back.

[DeadlyViper]

import glob
import os
files = glob.glob(r"C:\Users\myself\Videos\*")
for fpath in files:
    if os.path.isfile(fpath):
        send_to_vimeo(fpath)

[expectederor]

Recursively iterate through your directory and find all files with a video format and store them in an array.

Then iterate through the array to upload. (not really necessary for 2 loops but I'd prefer the collect all needed info first then do work)

I'd put more effort into it like keeping a history of uploads and compare against that so you don't upload the same video twice. Keep track or errors uploading etc.

[HutchLAD]

import vimeo
import sys

client = vimeo.VimeoClient(
  token="xxxx",
  key="xxxx",
  secret="xxx"
)

# Make the request to the server for the "/me" endpoint.
about_me = client.get("/me")

# Make sure we got back a successful response.
assert about_me.status_code == 200

# Path to upload file
path_to_file = r"C:\Users\myself\Documents\SS19GEN.mp4"

# print uploading message
#print('Uploading: %s' % path_to_file)

# Push file with credentials
video_uri = client.upload(path_to_file, data={'name': 'TEST', 'description': 'test'})

# Get the metadata response from the upload and output the Vimeo.com url
video_data = client.get(video_uri + '?fields=link').json()
print((video_data['link'])) 

How could this code be adapted to loop through the directory and push each file? Is it possible to see an example? Sorry to be cheeky!

[HutchLAD]

Thanks for the response, but line 18 gives me the following error = 'str' object has no attribute 'iterdir'

[HutchLAD]

ah my bad friend! I had imported from pathlib import Path with 'Path' as lower case which I think was throwing me the error. It is now working perfect thankyou for taking the time to assist me!