Effortless Video Uploading: Automating YouTube Uploads with Python Code (Free source code)

Videos :

Package :

googleapiclient

oauth2client

httplib2

pytz

Source code :

from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError from googleapiclient.http import MediaFileUpload from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets from oauth2client.file import Storage from oauth2client.tools import run_flow from googleapiclient import discovery import httplib2 from datetime import datetime, timedelta import pytz def getScheduleDateTime(days = 0): # Set the publish time to 2 PM Eastern Time (US) on the next day eastern_tz = pytz.timezone('America/Los_Angeles') publish_time = datetime.now(eastern_tz) if days>0: publish_time = datetime.now(eastern_tz) + timedelta(days) publish_time = publish_time.replace(hour=14, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0) # Set the publish time in the UTC timezone publish_time_utc = publish_time.astimezone(pytz.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ') return publish_time_utc # Start the OAuth flow to retrieve credentials def authorize_credentials(): CLIENT_SECRET = 'client_secret.json' SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube' STORAGE = Storage('credentials.storage') # Fetch credentials from storage credentials = STORAGE.get() # If the credentials doesn't exist in the storage location then run the flow if credentials is None or credentials.invalid: flow = flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET, scope=SCOPE) http = httplib2.Http() credentials = run_flow(flow, STORAGE, http=http) return credentials def getYoutubeService(): credentials = authorize_credentials() http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http()) discoveryUrl = ('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/youtube/v3/rest') service = discovery.build('youtube', 'v3', http=http, discoveryServiceUrl=discoveryUrl) return service def upload_video(file_path, title, description='', tags=[], privacy_status = 'public',day=0): print("Uploading...") youtube = getYoutubeService() try: # Define the video resource object body = { 'snippet': { 'title': title, 'description': description, 'tags': tags, }, 'status': { 'privacyStatus': privacy_status } } if privacy_status == 'private': body['status']['publishAt'] = getScheduleDateTime(day) # Define the media file object media_file = MediaFileUpload(file_path) # Call the API's videos.insert method to upload the video videos = youtube.videos() response = videos.insert( part='snippet,status', body=body, media_body=media_file ).execute() # Print the response after the video has been uploaded print('Video uploaded successfully!\n') print(f'Title: {response["snippet"]["title"]}') print(f'URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={response["id"]}') except HttpError as e: # print(f'An HTTP error {error.resp.status} occurred:\n{error.content}') raise Exception(f"An HTTP error {e.resp.status} occurred: {e.content.decode('utf-8')}") vid_path='your video path' upload_video(vid_path,'video title')