https://github.com/jarhill0/youtube2reddit
Periodically post YouTube videos from specific channels to a specific subreddit
https://github.com/jarhill0/youtube2reddit
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Periodically post YouTube videos from specific channels to a specific subreddit
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jarhill0/youtube2reddit
- Owner: jarhill0
- Created: 2017-02-12T06:10:32.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-04-07T08:35:05.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-03T07:41:40.799Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: reddit, reddit-bot, youtube-video
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 32.2 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# YouTube2Reddit: a Python script to periodically post YouTube videos from specific channels to a specific subreddit
This script is designed to be called periodically in its home directory. Its purpose is to post new YouTube videos from predefined YouTube channels to a predefined subreddit.
Since it's designed to be called periodically, I recommend running it on a cronjob at least once a day.
**Setup (may be incomplete)**:
1. Run `pip install praw` and `pip install feedparser` on your system (note: you may have to replace `pip` with `pip3` in those commands, as I had to).
2. Create an OAuth2 app as described [here](https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2). Make sure you are signed into the account you plan to run this script from. Note the client ID and the client secret.
3. Open the `config.py` file and edit the following variables:
- `sub_name`: The name of the subreddit your bot is moderator of.
4. Create `praw.ini` in the following format:
```
[YouTube2Reddit]
client_id=
client_secret=
username=
password=
```
Define each variable immediately after the = sign in the following way:
- `client_id`: The client ID from step 2.
- `client_secret`: The client secret from step 2.
- `username`: The username you want this script to run on. Make sure it has enough karma to post without captchas.
- `password`: The password for that account
The `praw.ini` file can go either in the directory you plan to execute the script from (as CWD) or in ~/.config/ .
5. Set up a cronjob (or other method of calling this script) that calls `main.py` at least daily, or as often as you want. The command I use in my cronjob is `python3 ~/YouTube2Reddit/main.py`.
6. Run `first_run.py` with `python3 first_run.py`.