capo-kinesis-video: typed, async Python SDK for AWS Kinesis Video¶

capo-kinesis-video is a typed Python SDK for AWS Kinesis Video. It has an async client, AsyncKinesisVideoClient, for asyncio and trio, and a sync client, KinesisVideoClient, with the same methods. Requests and responses are typed with TypedDicts, so your editor and type checker know every field.

It is part of capo, a community-driven alternative to boto3 and aioboto3, built on its own HTTP stack instead of botocore and generated from the official AWS Smithy models. Documentation: https://capo-sdk.dev/services/kinesis-video/

Installation¶

pip install capo-kinesis-video

Usage¶

from capo_kinesis_video import AsyncKinesisVideoClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncKinesisVideoClient() as kinesis_video:
        # Example: call the create_signaling_channel operation
        response = await kinesis_video.create_signaling_channel()
        print(response["channel_arn"])

Pagination¶

Some operations in this SDK support pagination. If the operation supports pagination it will have an iter_ prefixed method that returns an async iterator.

from capo_kinesis_video import AsyncKinesisVideoClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncKinesisVideoClient() as kinesis_video:
        # Example: paginate over describe_mapped_resource_configuration
        async for item in kinesis_video.iter_describe_mapped_resource_configuration():
            print(item)

Error Handling¶

The SDK raises exceptions for errors returned by the API. Catch them to handle failures gracefully.

from capo_kinesis_video import AsyncKinesisVideoClient
from capo_kinesis_video.error import AccessDeniedException


async def main():
    async with AsyncKinesisVideoClient() as kinesis_video:
        try:
            await kinesis_video.create_signaling_channel()
        except AccessDeniedException as e:
            print(f"Error: {e}")
            print(e.data)  # additional error data

Retrying¶

The SDK retries failed operations automatically. Retry behaviour follows the Smithy specification: errors are retried based on their is_retryable and is_throttling_error attributes. Throttling errors use a longer base delay. Network-level failures (connection errors and timeouts) are also retried. Non-retryable errors, such as client errors without the @retryable trait, are raised immediately without further attempts.

The number of attempts defaults to 3 and can be changed at the client level via retry_max_attempts, or per call via config_overrides.

from capo_kinesis_video import AsyncKinesisVideoClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncKinesisVideoClient() as kinesis_video:
        # Default: 3 attempts for every operation
        response = await kinesis_video.create_signaling_channel()

        # Override per operation
        response = await kinesis_video.create_signaling_channel(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 5})

        # Disable retries for this call
        response = await kinesis_video.create_signaling_channel(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 1})