sacsbrainz/YouTubeAutomation-Reddit

YouTubeAutomation-Reddit 🎥

Using this project, videos generated from Reddit posts will be automatically uploaded to your YouTube channel

Sample Video

video.mp4

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Installation 👨‍💻

1. Clone this repository
   

2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Run python -m playwright install and python -m playwright install-deps
   

4. Go to Free Cloud Computing Services - AWS Free Tier

   • Sing in to the console

   

   • Click on Open account menu
   • Click on Security credentials

   

   • Click on Create access key

   

   • Once you created the access key and obtained the secret key, open the config.toml file in the project and update the following parameters accordingly.
     

     [AmazonAWSCredential]
     aws_access_key_id = 'YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY ID'
     aws_secret_access_key = 'YOUR AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY'

5. Go to Reddit App Preferences and click on create another app at the bottom.

   • Fill out the required details, make sure to select script and click on create app.

   

   • Make a note of the personal use script & secret token and update the the following credentials in the config.toml file.

   

    [RedditCredential]
    client_id='YOUR PERSONAL USE SCRIPT'
    client_secret='YOUR SECRET TOKEN'
    user_agent='{YOUR REDDIT PROJECT NAME} v4.0 by /u/{YOUR REDDIT USERNAME}'
    username='YOUR REDDIT USERNAME'
    passkey='YOUR REDDIT PASSWORD'

6. At this point you can run the the program and generate a video however before that you need to updating a few more parameter in the config.toml file.

   [Directory]
   # absolute path to where this project is cloned or downloaded e.g: Desktop/YoutubeAutomation-Reddit
   path=''
   # --------------------------------------------
   [Background]
   # absolute path to the background video e.g: Desktop/minecraft.mp4
   path=''

   You can download any YouTube video as a background and add its path to the config.toml file. Here are a few options:

   • Minecraft (1:20 h): https://youtu.be/n_Dv4JMiwK8
   • GTA (1:00 h): https://youtu.be/qdvjZ1bUw68
   • Subway Surfer (1:05 h): https://youtu.be/ChBg4aowzX8

7. If you want the app to automatically upload the generated video into your Youtube channel, first set upload_to_youtube = true and specify how often you want the app to upload a video (in seconds). I don't recommond anything less than every 6 hours because you will reach your qouta limit.

 [App]
 # whether the result video should be uploaded to your youtube channel
 upload_to_youtube=false
 # how often should the app be run (in seconds) e.g: every 6 hours -> 21600 seconds
 run_every=21600

8. Finally you need to enable the Youtube api to be able to upload videos from your computer. This process is a bit more involved, so I'll link to a blog tutorial. Just follow the steps until minute 10:58 and you will be able to get a client_id and a client_secret. Update the following parameters and HOORAY!

   [YoutubeCredential]
   client_id=''
   client_secret=''

All we are left do is run

   python main.py

And let the app do the the rest!