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I want to upload to Youtube without having to use the web interface in order to automate some things. Is there a way to upload from the command line in OSX?

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You could give this open source project a try http://code.google.com/p/youtube-upload/

Youtube-upload is a command-line script that uploads videos to Youtube. If a video does not comply with Youtube limitations (<2Gb and <15'), it will be automatically splitted before uploading.

Youtube-upload should work on any platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows, ...) that runs Python and FFmpeg (see the dependecies section). You won't need FFmpeg if the video does not need splitting.

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When I try to run the install script I get an error saying No module named gdata.media. – z-buffer Feb 5 '11 at 10:56
@z-buffer - I'm afraid I didn't write this software nor do I have a Mac so I can't test it either. I would suggest that you contact the person who created the software with any issues. Thanks – Barry♦ Feb 5 '11 at 11:06
@z-buffer You will need to install the Google Data APIs Python Client Library. – Hydra Feb 17 at 6:58
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Use GoogleCL, the universal Google command line client. It's implemented in Python and therefore cross-platform. Unlike youtube-upload it uses proper OAuth2 authentication, so you're not typing in or sending your Google account password in plain text.

Install via pip:

pip install googlecl

Uploading a video is as simple as:

google youtube post --category Education killer_robots.avi
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