YouTube Video Maker

A tool for automatic video creation and uploading on YouTube.

Result:

Getting Started

These instructions will show you how this tool works and how to have the project up and running on your local machine.

Prerequisites

FFmpeg (version used to build this tool: 4.1.1-1)

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg   # on Debian based systems
$ sudo yum install ffmpeg       # on Red Hat based systems

Python libraries:

$ sudo pip3 install google_images_download==2.5.0
$ sudo pip3 install wikipedia==1.4.0
$ sudo pip3 install nltk==3.4.5
$ sudo pip3 install watson_developer_cloud==2.8.0
$ sudo pip3 install google-api-python-client==1.7.8
$ sudo pip3 install oauth2client==4.1.3

You will need to use the NLTK Downloader to obtain punkt:

$ python3
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download("punkt")
>>> exit()

Download this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/crhenr/youtube-video-maker.git

Add your API keys

You will need to put your Watson API keys in the searchrobot.py file:

...
iam_apikey = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
url = "YOUR_URL_HERE"
...

And your Google API keys in the clients_secret.json file:

...
"client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE",
"client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE",
...

Run the main file

After completing all the settings, just run the main file:

$ cd youtube-video-maker/src
$ python3 yvm.py

How it works?

The program behaves as follows:

1. Get the Wikipedia search term and the prefix;
1. Get the first sentences from the Wikipedia summary which corresponds to the search term;
1. Remove unnecessary information;
1. Send each sentence to Watson to get the corresponding keywords;
1. Download some images from Google Images based on the keywords;
1. Rename and convert the images to JPG;
1. Make the video, add the sentences as subtitles and add a music;
1. Send the final video to YouTube with title, description and tags.