YouTube Upload CLI

Wrapper for https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader to upload videos to YouTube via the CLI in a docker container.

Prerequisites

Install the following:

• Docker

How to use

The example below is a PowerShell command.

docker run --rm -it `
    -v <folder to video file>:/mnt/ `
    -v <folder to client_secrets.json>:/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/ `
    ghcr.io/jo-hoe/youtube-upload-cli:latest `
    -filename "/mnt/test.mp4" `
    -title "My Title" `
    -description "My description" `
    -tags "tag1,tag2,tag3"

And below is the same command in bash.

docker run --rm -it \
    -v <directory to video file>:/mnt/ \
    -v <directory to client_secrets.json>:/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/ \
    ghcr.io/jo-hoe/youtube-upload-cli:latest \
    -filename "/mnt/test.mp4" \
    -title "My Title" \
    -description "My description" \
    -tags "tag1,tag2,tag3"

First run

When running this for the first time, you need the client_secrets.json file. How to create it is outlined here.

You must perform your OAuth authentication if you do not yet have the request.token file. To create it, you should expose the port 8080. This can be done by adding -p 8080:8080 to the command above. After that, you can access http://localhost:8080 to perform the authentication.

The example be below bind the request.token to the same folder as the client_secrets.json ensure you can cache the token.

For PowerShell:

docker run --rm -it `
    -v <folder to video file>:/mnt/ `
    -v <folder to client_secrets.json>:/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/ `
    -p 8080:8080 `
    ghcr.io/jo-hoe/youtube-upload-cli:latest `
    -filename "/mnt/test.mp4" `
    -title "My Title" `
    -description "My description" `
    -tags "tag1,tag2,tag3" `
    -cache "/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/request.token"

And for bash:

docker run --rm -it \
    -v <directory to video file>:/mnt/ \
    -v <directory to client_secrets.json>:/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/ \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    ghcr.io/jo-hoe/youtube-upload-cli:latest \
    -filename "/mnt/test.mp4" \
    -title "My Title" \
    -description "My description" \
    -tags "tag1,tag2,tag3" \
    -cache "/home/ytuploader/.config/youtubeuploader/request.token"

CLI Commands

For the complete list of commands, see https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader/tree/cfb08f55fffb6d19f1d49f8c8a8804d7bc0366a9#usage

Caveats

Youtube Visibility Default

If you use this code the default visibility for your video is private. This will be the default for any video uploaded via API. You can change this by completing an audit by Youtube.

Youtube Upload Limit

Youtube limits the amount of calls you can do per day. One upload counts for 1.600 credit. And the default quota is 10.000 credits. It works out to ~6 video uploads per day. You can checkout your current quota here. One may apply for a quota increase here.