Youtube-up - Resumable Youtube video uploader

Overview

Youtube-up is a command-line utility for uploading videos to Youtube. Its interface is based on the python youtube-upload. I wrote this version because I wanted to have resume support as well as a stand-alone executable.

Prerequisites

This application requires a client_secrets.json file to authenticate with the Google API. Directions are available here. Just follow up to step 13, and name your project however you like. Just copy the resulting client_secrets.json file to the same folder where youtube-up is.

Usage

usage: youtube-up.exe [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]                
                                                                            
Flags:                                                                      
  --help  Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
                                                                            
Commands:                                                                   
  help [<command>...]                                                       
    Show help.                                                              
                                                                            
  upload [<flags>] <filename>                                               
    Upload a video                                                          
                                                                            
  check <filename>                                                          
    Check progress of the [filename]                                        
                                                                            
  find playlist [<flags>]                                                   
    Find a playlist

There are three basic commands: upload, check, and find.

Upload

usage: youtube-up.exe upload [<flags>] <filename>

Upload a video

Flags:
  --help                     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long
                             and --help-man).
  --title=TITLE              Title of the video
  --description=DESCRIPTION  Description of the video
  --playlist=PLAYLIST        Title of the playlist to include this video
  --tags=TAGS ...            Comma-separated list of tags for the video
  --privacy="public"         Privacy settings [public, unlisted, private]
  --interval=30              Timer interval for checking progress, in seconds.
                             Requires an API call each time and Youtube does not
                             update that frequently. Recommended that this not
                             be set lower than 10.

Args:
  <filename>  Path of the video to upload

Example: youtube-up upload --title "Hello World" --playlist "My Playlist" test.mp4

Note: if you use the playlist option, the title needs to match exactly, case and all. Also, the playlist search doesn't support paging, so it'll need to be in the first 50 playlists are returned by the API.

Resuming

When an upload is started, a .session file is created for the video. If you rerun the same command, the session file will be loaded and the video automatically resumed.

Check

If a video is interrupted for whatever reason, you can use this to check its current progress without starting an upload. I mainly include this for debugging.

Find

usage: youtube-up.exe find playlist [<flags>]

Find a playlist

Flags:
  --help         Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and
                 --help-man).
  --title=TITLE  Title of the playlist to find

Currently just allows finding the ID of a playlist by title. In the future this might support other searching options if I find them useful.

Example: youtube-up find playlist --title "My Playlist"