Initialization

Prerequisites

• You have registered an Alibaba Cloud account, completed real-name verification, and activated ApsaraVideo for VOD.
• You have obtained an AccessKey for access to ApsaraVideo for VOD. You can create an AccessKey for your Alibaba Cloud account on the AccessKey management page of the Alibaba Cloud console. Alternatively, you can create a RAM user in the RAM console and grant the user the permission to access ApsaraVideo for VOD. For more information, see RAM user access.

Initialization

The regionId parameter specifies the region of ApsaraVideo for VOD. Set this parameter to cn-shanghai for a region in China.

• Use an AccessKey

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import json
import traceback
from aliyunsdkcore.client import AcsClient
def init_vod_client(accessKeyId, accessKeySecret):
    regionId = 'cn-shanghai' # Sets the region of ApsaraVideo for VOD.
    connectTimeout = 3 # Sets the connection timeout duration, in seconds.
    return AcsClient(accessKeyId, accessKeySecret, regionId, auto_retry=True, max_retry_time=3, timeout=connectTimeout)

• Use Security Token Service (STS)

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import json
import traceback
from aliyunsdkcore.client import AcsClient
from aliyunsdkcore.auth.credentials import StsTokenCredential
def init_vod_client(accessKeyId, accessKeySecret, securityToken):
    regionId = 'cn-shanghai' # Sets the region of ApsaraVideo for VOD.
    connectTimeout = 3 # Sets the connection timeout duration, in seconds.
    credential = StsTokenCredential(accessKeyId, accessKeySecret, securityToken)
    return AcsClient(region_id=regionId, auto_retry=True, max_retry_time=3, timeout=connectTimeout, credential=credential)