A bot for automatically post comment when a youtube channel upload a new video. This bot checks a specified channel every specified intervel and if a new video found this bot will post a comment that you wants to post.
- python 2.7
- google api client modules
- google api console account
- Youtube account
- Create an account and a api and a outh screen in google console
- Replace the file "client_secrets.json" with the downloaded Credentials json file from google console
- Edit these variables in bot.py
- cid="UUX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6v8uQQuVA" put uploads id of the required channel here.
- lastvid="Z9WQy9uEY8M" put last video id here
- intervel=5 put the time waiting intervel here
- comment="Put your text here" edit this variable and put the required comment here.
- Remove contents in "bot.py-oauth2.json" before usage
- if you setup everything properly the bot will ask you to goto a link from your browser and login with your youtube account ( this is a one time only requirment)
- How to find upload id? see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUlmco7v2M .
- To find last video go the the required channel and check the url of the latest upload an url may look like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUlmco7v2M take the last string that is "RjUlmco7v2M" this is video id.
- To set up a good time intervel you must consider several things eg youtube api quata limit system resources etc... if you planed to run this bot 24x7 then put the inyer vell as 20 to 25 seconds, if you are running this bot only for one or two hour you can put this intervel as 1 or 2 seconds. this is to prevent youtube api limit.
Note
Feel free to modify i have messed up with arguments in the last few section, the code still works but there is a lot of room for improvements.