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https://github.com/hughperkins/youtube-likes
Receive a notification/email when someone 'like's one of your videos.
https://github.com/hughperkins/youtube-likes
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Receive a notification/email when someone 'like's one of your videos.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hughperkins/youtube-likes
- Owner: hughperkins
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-07-11T11:23:04.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-10T07:20:02.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-10T09:16:37.969Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 143 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# youtube-likes
Receive a notification/email when someone 'like's one of your videos.
Target usage:
- on a system that has cron emails enabled:
- create a cronjob, with email activated,
- that runs this eg every 15-60 minutes
- be sure to copy `config.yml.templ` to `config.yml`, and fill in the api key etc
- thats it :-)
## Installation/configuration
- open a terminal. eg on a Mac, press command + space, type 'terminal', then press enter key
- clone this repo. command + spa
```
git clone https://github.com/hughperkins/youtube-likes.git
```
- cd into the `youtube-likes` folder
```
cd youtube-likes
```
- copy `config.yml.templ` to `config.yml`
```
cp config.yml.templ config.yml
```
- open config.yml in a text editor, and fill in your channel name and your channel id (you can get this by going to your channel, and looking in the url, everything after `https://www.youtube.com/channel/`)
- you can add multiple channels, by copying and pasting line 3, and filling in the details for each channel
- go through steps 1-3 of https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
- go to credentials page https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials
- at the top, click 'create credentials'
- choose 'api key'
- copy the key, and paste it into config.yml, as the value for `api_key`
- back in credentials web page, click 'close'
- click the ... to the right of the new api key, click 'edit api key'
- change 'api restrictions' to 'restrict key'
- change 'select api' to 'youtube data api v3'
- install pyenv, and pyenv virtualenv, e.g. see
- https://jordanthomasg.medium.com/python-development-on-macos-with-pyenv-2509c694a808
- https://jordanthomasg.medium.com/python-development-on-macos-with-pyenv-virtualenv-ec583b92934c
- back in the terminal:
```
pyenv install 3.8.5
pyenv virtualenv 3.8.5 youtube-likes
pyenv activate youtube-likes
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
## To run
From the cloned repository:
```
pyenv activate youtube-likes
python youtube_likes.py
```
## Configuring crontab
- e.g. on some kind of shared hosting or similar, install youtube-likes, then configure crontab something like:
```
MAILTO="[email protected]"
32 * * * * nice /home/yourhome/youtube-likes/run.sh
```
- you'll need to create the script /home/hourhome/youtube-likes/run.sh, which will activate the pyenv environment, and then run `youtube_likes.py`
## Similar projects:
- [github-stars](https://github.com/hughperkins/github-stars)
- [stackexchange-rep](https://github.com/hughperkins/stackexchange-rep)