Automate Video Uploads to YouTube using YouTube V3 API

Get Client ID and Client Secret

  • Go to Google API Console
  • Create a new project
  • Go to Credentials
  • Create OAuth Client ID
  • Then follow the steps to create a new OAuth Client ID and download the credentials file(.json)
  • Now again go to Credentials and OAuth 2.0 Client IDs
  • Select app type as Desktop App and give some name
  • This client_secret.json file will be used to authenticate your application for all API services

Install Google API Client Libraries

  • Install Google API Client Libraries using pip 
    pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib google-auth

Upload Python File

  • Follow these instructions
  • Make sure to create a file named client_secret.json in the same format as given in the instructions
  • Also edit print and exception statements to make it compatible with Python 3
  • remove httplib from imports and wherever used
  • Install oauth2client 
    pip install oauth2client
  • Run the script and test it out

Automate Video Uploads

  • keep a seperate folder for videos to be uploaded
  • keep the python script in the same folder
  • create a new python script to run the upload script every 24 hours or so using cron