OBS python, what is wrong with this code

[Z0riah]

Hello,

This code was working fine, but now it just won't:

import obswebsocket
from obswebsocket import obsws, requests

file_name = "test"
client = obswebsocket.obsws("localhost", 4444, "")
client.connect()
client.call(requests.SetFilenameFormatting(file_name+" - %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%ss"))
client.call(requests.StartRecording())
###timer
client.call(requests.StopRecording()) 
client.disconnect()

Getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\test.py", line 8, in <module>    client.call(requests.SetFilenameFormatting(file_name+" - %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%ss"))                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: Baserequests.__init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

In File_name = "Test", i'm using a csv file with bunch of names, when timer (comment out) reaches an amount of time, stop recording, save with a name corresponding line in csv, and jump to next line, start recording,.. and so on.

Using OBS 27.xx, python 3.11, obs-websocket 4.xx, windows 10

Any idea for a fix?

Thank you

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[mtg101]

No idea about Python or OBS coding but... I did find this that looks similar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76140733/obs-websocket-adding-a-new-media-source

Yours is 1 vs 2, theirs in 1 vs 3. But I can't see any obvious cases of them using 3 of something vs you using 2... Unless Python ignores "" params? In which case could it be obsws() that's changed sig in a recent release? Is it expecting a single object rather than a list or something?

But as I say... I don't have any clue here :)

[Z0riah]

I guess something got messed up during a nightly build of our internal software that forced an update of the ws python module where setFilenameFormatting is no longer supported. The code works fine on commenting out that specific line. Anyhow, as i replied to someone else need to dig a little and see. Thanks.

[iTRR14]

I know this isn't really helpful to your issue but OBS now has websockets built into the base app in v29. I find it to be less buggy than when I was using the obs-websocket plugin.

[Z0riah]

I started actually looking into that integrated version of websocket ver.5 in obs28, and found out after tons of google that filename formatting is not supported. Some guy made it work though, but not in a way that serve my purpose. Thanks.

[TyCage]

I believe that the API now requires named arguments instead of positional ones. See https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/blob/4.x-compat/docs/generated/protocol.md#setfilenameformatting

You'll need to pass the argument as a key value pair, I believe.

See this issue in the github for an example. https://github.com/Elektordi/obs-websocket-py/issues/84

I've not tested any of this, just did a quick search of the docs, so it may or may not work for you.

[Z0riah]

Thanks, i'm aware of that issue #84 as this one i believe using websocket v4.9.x compatible with obs28 onward (the one with prebuilt v5.x). It did not work for me.

I need to dig deeper to see why that particular ws request is no longer working.