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How videos add to the camera roll
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@cvp I tried the code. I can add the video to specified album. However, the code creates the album every time when adding another video to the album with same name (many 'my_album' are created); can not add the video to existing album. Any information or alternative way ?
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@beans sorry for that, I have only tested once. I'll try in the afternoon Brussels time
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@beans that should be ok, I hope
# add a local video file to IOS photos album from objc_util import * import threading PHPhotoLibrary = ObjCClass('PHPhotoLibrary') PHAssetChangeRequest = ObjCClass('PHAssetChangeRequest') PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest = ObjCClass('PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest') PHAssetCollection = ObjCClass('PHAssetCollection') PHFetchOptions = ObjCClass('PHFetchOptions').alloc() def add_video(): lib = PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary() url = nsurl('MesTests/mov_bbb.mp4') # path to local video file PHAssetCollectionType = 1 # album PHAssetCollectionSubtype = 2 # albumregular album = 'my_album' NSPredicate = ObjCClass('NSPredicate').predicateWithFormat_argumentArray_("title = %@", [album]) PHFetchOptions.setPredicate_(NSPredicate) # get number of albums with this name fetchresult = PHAssetCollection.fetchAssetCollectionsWithType_subtype_options_(PHAssetCollectionType, PHAssetCollectionSubtype, PHFetchOptions) n_albums = fetchresult.count() def change_block(): req = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromVideoAtFileURL_(url) placeholderForCreatedAsset = req.placeholderForCreatedAsset() if n_albums == 0: print('create album',album) albumChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetCollectionWithTitle_(album) else: print('existing album',album) albumChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest.changeRequestForAssetCollection_(fetchresult.firstObject()) print('add video') albumChangeRequest.addAssets_([placeholderForCreatedAsset]) def perform_changes(): lib.performChangesAndWait_error_(change_block, None) t = threading.Thread(target=perform_changes) t.start() t.join() if __name__ == '__main__': add_video()
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@cvp Thank you very much. The code works as expected. Very helpful. Additionally I found another issue through testing the code: the file should be accessible as internal file, the file is only stored in iCloud Drive (not imported to the device as accessible) can not be added. I assume this is reasonable but if any way to start importing from iCloud Drive to the device by the code it will be further helpful. Any ideas ? Sorry for repeated asking.
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@beans said:
the file is only stored in iCloud Drive
In which folder? Try to open it as "external folder" in Pythonista files browser
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@beans Once you have defined your iCloud Drive folder as external folder in Pythonista, you can get a file with
url = nsurl('/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/MyFolder/mov_bbb.mp4')
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@cvp I opened that iCloud folder from EXTERNAL FILES. The folder is shown in EXTERNAL FILES. The files existed in the folder are accessible as '/private/var...', however, the files newly added to that folder are not shown in the folder of EXTERNAL FILES and are not accessible as '/private/var...' The newly added files can be shown using os.listdir('/private/var...'). The file names are shown as '.filename.icloud' (they are not shown in the folder of EXTERNAL FILES). I assume the files are not imported to the device or not synced with EXTERNAL FILES and would like to know if any way to import the files by the code.
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@beans it is a known problem: a file not yet locally downloaded is not accessible 😢
If you first download it in the Files app, you should be able to access it.
I think there are some topics in this forum about this problem.
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@cvp Thank you for the information. Anyway, the code is very useful.
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yeah. it works