django-ooyala

Introduction

This library allows you to interact and make requests to Ooyala for video data. Once installed and linked into a django site you can cache your video data and make use of videos within ooayla in other models.

Installation (on django)

Add "ooyala" to your settings.py and your ooyala API keys thus:

OOYALA = {
    'API_KEYS' : {
        'PARTNER_CODE' : 'partner_code_here',
        'SECRET_CODE' : 'secret_code_here',
    }
}

The templates within ooyala/templates/ooyala will use the ooyala_base.html file but you can override this by adding a 'BASE_TEMPLATE' key to the OOYALA settings variable, eg:

OOYALA.update('BASE_TEMPLATE', 'videos/custom_ooyala.html')

The admin_views aren't needed, I use those just to do some debugging as the code is developed. For the client side urls (detail/index/search) add in the client_urls. To hook them in use the following in your urlconf.

    (r'^videos/', include('ooyala.client_urls', namespace='video')),
    (r'^admin/ooyala/', include('ooyala.urls', namespace='ooyala')),

Note that (for now) the client urls are namespaced to video whilst the admin ones use ooyala.

Usage outside of models

You're welcome to use the library file without having to use django models - the requests return the full xml from ooyala so if you're happy to work with this you can avoid having to use django.

from ooyala.library import OoyalaQuery
req = OoyalaQuery(page_id=500)
ooyala_response = req.process()

print ooyala_response
print req.url

if type(ooyala_response)!=str:
    items = ooyala_response.getElementsByTagName('item')
    print ooyala_response.toprettyxml()

When using the code within django you'll be able to run the management commands as cron jobs and cache all your content within linkable django models.