Python CLI YouTube Upload Utility
It's a fork of http://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/ with some improvements
Youtube-upload is a command-line script that uploads videos to Youtube. Youtube-upload should work on any platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows, ...) that runs Python.
- Python 2.6 or 2.7
- python-gdata (>= 1.2.4)
Note: You must have logged in at least once into your Youtube account prior to uploading any videos.
- Download
* Download latest ZIP https://github.com/TheMengzor/youtube-upload/archive/master.zip
* Or clone git repo:
git clone git@github.com:TheMengzor/youtube-upload.git - Install
* Install it to the system:
sudo python ./setup.py install* Or run it without an installation from youtube-upload folder:./youtube-upload video.mov
youtube-upload --email=myemail@gmail.com --password=mypassword \
--title="A.S. Mutter" --description="A.S. Mutter plays Beethoven" \
--category=Music --keywords="mutter, beethoven" anne_sophie_mutter.flv
Script will return vieo URL:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzZ-fYjeYs
youtube-upload --email=myemail@gmail.com \
--password=mypassword \
--title="A.S. Mutter" \
--description="$(< description.txt)" \
--category=Music \
--keywords="mutter, beethoven" \
anne_sophie_mutter.flv
Script will return vieo URL:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzZ-fYjeYs
youtube-upload --api-upload [OTHER OPTIONS] file.flv
If you set explicitly the --api-upload options or pycurl does not installed, the original Youtube API will be used to upload the video file. This method is not recommended because it does not shows the nice progressbar.
youtube-upload [OPTIONS] --title="TITLE" video.part1.avi video.part2.avi
Script will return video URLs and automatically add part number to the video title:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzZ-fYjeYs # title: TITLE [1/2]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzZ-fYsdff # title: TITLE [2/2]
youtube-upload [OPTIONS] --add-to-playlist=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/7986C428284A40A1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpqu97l3G1U
Note that the argument must be the video URL (not a local file) and the playlist is the URL of the feed (with no prefix "PL").
youtube-upload --get-categories
Script will return a space-separated list of available categories
Tech Education Animals People Travel Entertainment Howto Sports Autos Music News Games Nonprofit Comedy Film
If you feeling problems to upload large file you can split it with FFMPEG. You can use the Bash example script to split it before uploading:
bash examples/split_video_for_youtube.sh video.avi
Script will return
video.part1.avi
video.part2.avi
video.part3.avi
The script uses pycurl by default (when available) to upload the video, but if you need to tweak the upload parameters take a look at the Bash script included with the sources <http://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/source/browse/trunk/examples/upload_with_curl.sh examples/upload_with_curl.sh>. This command, for example, would upload somevideo.flv with a limit rate of 100KBytes:
$ youtube-upload --get-upload-form-info [OPTIONS] | bash examples/upload_with_curl.sh --limit-rate 100k
$ youtube-upload --private ...
$ youtube-upload --unlisted ...
Set environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy:
export http_proxy=http://user:password@host:port
export https_proxy=http://user:password@host:port
youtube-upload ....
Before you upload a video using the script, do it manually to make sure everything is ok (you have a valid user/password and an associated channel). See issue57 for more details.
If you are using two-step verification issue an application-specific password and use it in the script as if it was your real password. See issue111 for more details.
Use the issues tracker instead to report bugs or suggest improvements.