Add new feature to force compatibility tag with Mastodon publication (peertube)

README.md

@@ -78,13 +78,19 @@ prismedia_upload - tool to upload videos to Peertube and Youtube
 
 Usage:
   prismedia_upload.py --file=<FILE> [options]
+  prismedia_upload.py --file=<FILE> --tags=STRING [--mt options]
   prismedia_upload.py -h | --help
   prismedia_upload.py --version
 
 Options:
   --name=NAME  Name of the video to upload. (default to video filename)
   -d, --description=STRING  Description of the video. (default: default description)
-  -t, --tags=STRING  Tags for the video. comma separated
+  -t, --tags=STRING  Tags for the video. comma separated.
+                     WARN: tags with space and special characters (!, ', ", ?, ...)
+                           are not supported by Mastodon to be published from Peertube
+                           use mastodon compatibility below
+  --mt  Force Mastodon compatibility for tags (drop every incompatible characters inside tags)
+        This option requires --tags
   -c, --category=STRING  Category for the videos, see below. (default: Films)
   --cca  License should be CreativeCommon Attribution (affects Youtube upload only)
   -p, --privacy=STRING  Choose between public, unlisted or private. (default: private)
@@ -122,6 +128,7 @@ Languages:
 - Support of all videos arguments (description, tags, category, licence, ...)
   - [x] description
   - [x] tags (no more than 30 characters per tag as Peertube does not support it)
+  - [x] Option to force tags to be compatible with Mastodon publication
   - [x] categories
   - [x] license: cca or not (Youtube only as Peertube uses Attribution by design)
   - [x] privacy (between public, unlisted or private)

lib/pt_upload.py

@@ -68,14 +68,17 @@ def upload_video(oauth, secret, options):
 
     if options.get('--tags'):
         tags = options.get('--tags').split(',')
-        for strtags in tags:
+        for strtag in tags:
             # Empty tag crashes Peertube, so skip them
-            if strtags == "":
+            if strtag == "":
                 continue
             # Tag more than 30 chars crashes Peertube, so exit and check tags
-            if len(strtags) >= 30:
+            if len(strtag) >= 30:
                 exit("Sorry, Peertube does not support tag with more than 30 characters, please reduce your tag size")
-            fields.append(("tags", strtags))
+            # If Mastodon compatibility is enabled, clean tags from special characters
+            if options.get('--mt'):
+                strtag = utils.mastodonTag(strtag)
+            fields.append(("tags", strtag))
 
     if options.get('--category'):
         fields.append(("category", str(utils.getCategory(options.get('--category'), 'peertube'))))

lib/utils.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser, NoOptionError, NoSectionError
 from os.path import dirname, splitext, basename, isfile
+import unicodedata
 
 ### CATEGORIES ###
 YOUTUBE_CATEGORY = {
@@ -154,3 +155,21 @@ def parseNFO(options):
             except NoSectionError:
                 exit("Given NFO file miss section [video], please check syntax of your NFO.")
     return options
+
+
+def upcaseFirstLetter(s):
+    return s[0].upper() + s[1:]
+
+
+def mastodonTag(tag):
+    tags = tag.split(' ')
+    mtag = ''
+    for s in tags:
+        if s == '':
+            continue
+        strtag = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode (s, 'utf-8')).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
+        strtag = ''.join(e for e in strtag if e.isalnum())
+        strtag = upcaseFirstLetter(strtag)
+        mtag = mtag + strtag
+
+    return mtag

nfo_example.txt

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 name = videoname
 description = Your complete video description
 tags = list of tags, comma separated
+mt = True
 category = Films
 cca = True
 privacy = private

prismedia_upload.py

@@ -6,13 +6,19 @@ prismedia_upload - tool to upload videos to Peertube and Youtube
 
 Usage:
   prismedia_upload.py --file=<FILE> [options]
+  prismedia_upload.py --file=<FILE> --tags=STRING [--mt options]
   prismedia_upload.py -h | --help
   prismedia_upload.py --version
 
 Options:
   --name=NAME  Name of the video to upload. (default to video filename)
   -d, --description=STRING  Description of the video. (default: default description)
-  -t, --tags=STRING  Tags for the video. comma separated
+  -t, --tags=STRING  Tags for the video. comma separated.
+                     WARN: tags with space and special characters (!, ', ", ?, ...)
+                           are not supported by Mastodon to be published from Peertube
+                           use mastodon compatibility below
+  --mt  Force Mastodon compatibility for tags (drop every incompatible characters inside tags)
+        This option requires --tags
   -c, --category=STRING  Category for the videos, see below. (default: Films)
   --cca  License should be CreativeCommon Attribution (affects Youtube upload only)
   -p, --privacy=STRING  Choose between public, unlisted or private. (default: private)
@@ -146,6 +152,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                                     lambda x: not x.isdigit(),
                                     error="Tags should be a string")
                                ),
+        Optional('--mt'): bool,
         Optional('--category'): Or(None, And(
                                     str,
                                     validateCategory,