I had the initial idea that content between platform is very transformative. A lot of Youtube content could be transformed into TikTok content, Instagram to Facebook, Reddit to YouTube, etc. I decided to start with a slice of this idea. Reddit to Youtube. I chose to make the videos in Youtube shorts format since it's a new field on Youtube, less established, more likely to gain following.
At the same time, I wanted to work with automated video editing, and learning to manage code and files in a more pythonic and organized way.
I designed the code so that it could be uploaded to an AWS EC2 to make this process fully automatic and in the background.
main.py is designed to do the following:
Get posts from PRAW API via reddit_scraper.py → download first post that's under 3 min (shorts limit) → render video in vertical format via render.py → upload to youtube via upload.py
upload.py is heavily modified sample code from Google's YouTube Data 4 API
Edit config.py for desired settings. Please edit it or the code won't work.
Reddit API and YouTube Data 4 API are used. YouTube API is kind of a pain to set up; there are videos on it on YouTube (meta!). Replace client_secrets.json key with key provided by YouTube Data 4 API. Ensure that 'Manage your YouTube videos' is enabled.
To get the ability to make your videos public, your program has to go through audit process. Check out this: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/yt_api_form
Typing these commands into the console, and installing FFmpeg should be all the dependencies you need!
pip install redvid
pip install moviepy
pip install scikit-image
pip install apiclient
pip install praw
pip install httplib2
pim install oauth2client
pip install google-api-python-client
After filing out the needed information above, and installing the dependencies, run python main.py. It should download a relevant video, edit it, and upload it all in one step.
If you're super new to coding/python, and don't know how to run a script by python main.py, then right-clicking on main.py file and running it using open with and python's launcher should do the trick.
If you're having any issues: feel free to create an issue request, and/or join this project's discord server. If you'd like to contribute, feel free to start a pull request! (and maybe join the server so it's easier to communicate :] )
Feel free to fork and play around with it. You can not use the code commercially before negotiating a deal with me.
2023-04-15 Google's authentication has changed, and now it's much harder to authenticate through the terminal. I recommend using a computer with a user interface to authenticate and run the program! So, imo, don't bother with EC2, and just use an old/spare laptop if you have one.
I wrote this project early in my programming career, and thought I'd come back to it to re-write most of the code to make it much more readable and dynamic. Hope this helps with the issues!