Scripted uploads to youtube.
- upload video files from local disk or from the web.
- ratelimit upload bandwidth
Grab a precompiled binary for Linux, Mac or Windows or build it yourself.
This project uses 'dep' for vendoring.
- Install Go e.g.
yum install golang
orapt-get install golang
- Define your Go Path e.g.
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
- Fetch the project
go get github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader
- run
dep ensure
in the project root - run
go build
Talking to the Youtube API requires oauth2 authentication. As such, you must:
- Create an account on the Google Developers Console
- Register a new app there
- Enable the Youtube API (APIs & Auth -> APIs)
- Create Client ID (APIs & Auth -> Credentials), select 'Web application'
- Add an 'Authorized redirect URI' of 'http://localhost:8080/oauth2callback'
- Take note of the
Client ID
andClient secret
values
The utility looks for client_secrets.json
in the local directory. Create it first using the details from above:
{
"installed": {
"client_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"client_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"redirect_uris": ["http://localhost:8080/oauth2callback"],
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"
}
}
Update client_id
and client_secret
to match your details
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 of ./youtubeuploader:
-cache string
Token cache file (default "request.token")
-categoryId string
Video category Id
-description string
Video description (default "uploaded by youtubeuploader")
-filename string
Filename to upload. Can be a URL
-metaJSON string
JSON file containing title,description,tags etc (optional)
-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")
-tags string
Comma separated list of video tags
-title string
Video title (default "Video Title")
NOTE: When specifying a URL as the filename, the data will be streamed through the localhost (download from remote host, then upload to Youtube)
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:
{
"title": "my test title",
"description": "my test description",
"tags": ["test tag1", "test tag2"],
"privacyStatus": "private",
"categoryId": "10",
"recordingdate": "2017-05-21",
"location": {
"latitude": 48.8584,
"longitude": 2.2945
},
"locationDescription": "Eiffel Tower"
}
All fields are optional. Command line flags will be used by default (where available). Use \n
in the description to insert newlines.
Based on Go Youtube API Sample code