Automate uploading of videos to YouTube

Question

Is there a way to automate uploading of videos straight to YouTube?

I would like to keep lots of home made videos. Of course, they are subject to being lost, or somebody could steal the the computer, or water or fire could destroy them.

Secondly, I have to plug in my hard drive every time I want to watch something, which I find slow and cumbersome.

I was thinking that perhaps I could upload the videos to YouTube with the privacy set to invite-only and then delete the video from the hard drive automatically. Could this be done?

Answer 1

You'll have to implement the YouTube API. The documentation for file uploading can be seen here.

Answer 2

It can be done with youtube api

For c# my code =

    YouTubeRequestSettings settings = new YouTubeRequestSettings("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",  "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

    YouTubeRequest request = new YouTubeRequest(settings);

    Video newVideo = new Video();

    newVideo.Title = srTitle;
    newVideo.Tags.Add(new MediaCategory("Games", YouTubeNameTable.CategorySchema));
    newVideo.Keywords = srKeywords;

    newVideo.Description = srDescription;

    newVideo.YouTubeEntry.Private = false;

    newVideo.YouTubeEntry.MediaSource = new MediaFileSource(srWhichVideo, "video/wmv");

    ((GDataRequestFactory)request.Service.RequestFactory).Timeout = 9999999;


    Video createdVideo = request.Upload(newVideo);
    string srVideoUrl = createdVideo.WatchPage.AbsoluteUri.ToString().Replace("&feature=youtube_gdata_player", "");

Answer 3

You could try firepype.com, it allows you to just drag and drop videos and they post to youtube, Vimeo.