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Scripted uploads to Youtube
https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader

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Scripted uploads to Youtube

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader
Owner: porjo
License: apache-2.0
Created: 2015-05-21T09:59:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-07-10T04:46:37.000Z (4 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-09-12T23:20:00.804Z (about 2 months ago)
Topics: go, video, youtube-api, youtube-uploader
Language: Go
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Size: 379 KB
Stars: 752
Watchers: 22
Forks: 97
Open Issues: 6
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

# Youtube Uploader

![Tests](https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader/actions/workflows/gotest.yml/badge.svg)

Scripted uploads to youtube.

- upload video files from local disk or from the web.
- ratelimit upload bandwidth

## Download

Grab a [precompiled binary](https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader/releases) for Linux, Mac or Windows or build it yourself.

## Setup

### Youtube API

Talking to the Youtube API requires oauth2 authentication. As such, you must:

1. Create an account on the [Google Developers Console](https://console.developers.google.com)
1. Create a new project for this app
1. Enable the Youtube API (APIs & Services -> Enable APIs and Services -> Click 'ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES' top right). Select 'YouTube Data API v3'
1. Create OAuth consent screen (APIs & Services -> OAuth Consent Screen)
- Add a test user. This can be any Google User account but it should correspond with the Youtube account where videos will be uploaded.
1. Create Credentials (APIs & Services -> Credentials -> click 'CREATE CREDENTIALS'), select 'OAuth client ID', select 'Web application'
- Add an 'Authorized redirect URI' of 'http://localhost:8080/oauth2callback'
1. Download the client secrets JSON file (click download icon next to newly created client ID) and save it as file `client_secrets.json` in the same directory as the utility e.g.

```json
{
"web": {
"client_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"project_id": "youtubeuploader-yyyyy",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"redirect_uris": [
"http://localhost:8080/oauth2callback"
]
}
}
```

**NOTE 1** Google will apply 'private' status on videos uploaded to newly created projects - from [Google's Announcement](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/revision_history#july-28,-2020):

> All videos uploaded via the videos.insert endpoint from unverified API projects created after 28 July 2020 will be restricted to private viewing mode. To lift this restriction, each project must undergo an audit to verify compliance with the Terms of Service.

See [Issue #86](https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader/issues/86) for more information.

**NOTE 2** By default you will only be able to upload ~6 videos every 24 hours due to quota restrictions set by Google. See [Issue #119](https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader/issues/119) for more information.

## Usage

At a minimum, just specify a filename:

```
./youtubeuploader -filename blob.mp4
```

If it is the first time you've run the utility, a browser window should popup and prompt you to provide Youtube credentials. A token will be created and stored in `request.token` file in the local directory for subsequent use. To run the utility on a headless-server, generate the token file locally first, then simply copy the token file along with `youtubeuploader` and `client_secrets.json` to the remote host.

Full list of options:
```
Usage:
-cache string
token cache file (default "request.token")
-caption string
caption filename. Can be a URL
-categoryId string
video category Id
-chunksize int
size (in bytes) of each upload chunk. A zero value will cause all data to be uploaded in a single request (default 16777216)
-debug
turn on verbose log output
-description string
video description (default "uploaded by youtubeuploader")
-filename string
video filename. Can be a URL. Read from stdin with '-'
-language string
video language (default "en")
-limitBetween string
only rate limit between these times e.g. 10:00-14:00 (local time zone)
-metaJSON string
JSON file containing title,description,tags etc (optional)
-metaJSONout string
filename to write uploaded video metadata into (optional)
-notify
notify channel subscribers of new video. Specify '-notify=false' to disable. (default true)
-oAuthPort int
TCP port to listen on when requesting an oAuth token (default 8080)
-privacy string
video privacy status (default "private")
-quiet
suppress progress indicator
-ratelimit int
rate limit upload in Kbps. No limit by default
-secrets string
Client Secrets configuration (default "client_secrets.json")
-sendFilename
send original file name to YouTube (default true)
-tags string
comma separated list of video tags
-thumbnail string
thumbnail filename. Can be a URL
-title string
video title
-version
show version
```
*NOTE:* When specifying a URL as the filename, the data will be streamed through the localhost (download from remote host, then upload to Youtube)

If `-quiet` is specified, no upload progress will be displayed. Current progress can be output by sending signal `USR1` to the process e.g. `kill -USR1 ` (Linux/Unix only).

### Metadata

Video title, description etc can specified via the command line flags or via a JSON file using the `-metaJSON` flag. An example JSON file would be:

```json
{
"title": "my test title",
"description": "my test description",
"tags": ["test tag1", "test tag2"],
"privacyStatus": "private",
"madeForKids": false,
"embeddable": true,
"license": "creativeCommon",
"publicStatsViewable": true,
"publishAt": "2017-06-01T12:05:00+02:00",
"categoryId": "10",
"recordingdate": "2017-05-21",
"playlistIds": ["xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"],
"playlistTitles": ["my test playlist"],
"language": "fr"
}
```
- all fields are optional
- use `\n` in the description to insert newlines
- times can be provided in one of two formats: `yyyy-mm-dd` (UTC) or `yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+zz:zz`
- any values supplied via command line will take precedence

## Credit

Based on [Go Youtube API Sample code](https://github.com/youtube/api-samples/tree/master/go)

Thanks to [github.com/tokland/youtube-upload](https://github.com/tokland/youtube-upload) for insight into how to update playlists.