Youtube Uploader Bot

Simple Telegram Bot to Upload videos to Youtube written in Python3.

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Info

This is a simple hobby project which I was really curious about to implement. This is a Telegram bot which uses Youtube Data API v3 to upload videos to Youtube.

Libraries Used

Setup

❗ This project requires Python3.6 or higher

Clone and setup virtual environment

$ git clone https://github.com/odysseusmax/utube.git

$ cd utube

$ python3 -m venv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

Environment Variables

BOT_TOKEN(Required) - Get your bot token from Bot Father.
SESSION_NAME(optional) - Your bot's username.
API_ID(Required) - Your telegram api id, get from Manage Apps.
API_HASH(Required) - Your telegram api hash, get from Manage Apps.
CLIENT_ID(Required) - Your google client id.
CLIENT_SECRET(Required) - Your google client secret.
BOT_OWNER(Required) - Telegram id of bot owner.
AUTH_USERS(optional) - Telegram id's of authorised users, separated by ,.
VIDEO_DESCRIPTION(optional) - Any default description to be aded to the video.
VIDEO_CATEGORY(optional) - YouTube's video category id. If not specified or specified id is invalid, category id will be selected randomly.
VIDEO_TITLE_PREFIX(optional) - Any prefix to be added to the video's title.
VIDEO_TITLE_SUFFIX(optional) - Any suffix to be added to the video's title.
UPLOAD_MODE(optional) - The video's privacy status. Valid values for this property are: private, public, unlisted.
DEBUG (optional) - Whether to set logging level to DEBUG. If set logging will be set to DEBUG level, else INFO level.

Getting your CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET

Head to Google console, create a new project named Youtube Uploader and enable API'S AND SERVISES. Search for YOUTUBE DATA API v3 and enable the API. Go to Credentials page, select your project Youtube Uploader create a new credential with desktop as type. Copy the CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET.
You have to verify your application with google, only then you can make the uploaded videos public. YouTube changed its developer policy, and videos uploaded using unverfied applications will be kept private.

Install requirements

Run :

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run bot

Lets run our bot for the first time!

$ python3 -m bot

If you did everything correctly, the bot should be running. Go do /start to see if the bot is live or not. Follow the instructions provided by bot to setup authorisation and to start uploading.

Or the easy way of directly deploying to heroku

Development Status

This project is actively maintained and will continue so until I'm tired of it.

Special notes

With the Youtube Data API you are awarded with 10,000 points of requests. For one video upload it costs 1605 points, regardless of file size, which calculates to about 6 uploads daily. Once you have exhausted your daily points, you have to wait till daily reset. Resets happens at 0:00 PST, i.e. 12:30 IST. So make your uploads count.
Uploading copyright contents will leads to immediate blocking of the video.
By default, all the videos are uploaded as private with random category id unless you provide UPLOAD_MODE and VIDEO_CATEGORY. You may change it after youtube processes the video.