Youtube-upload is a command line script that using to upload a videos to your youtube account. This tool runs using Python
Where to download
click here to download youtube-upload
$ tar xvzf youtube-upload-VERSION.tgz $ cd youtube-upload-VERSION $ sudo python setup.py install
Dependencies
Before installing youtube-upload tool you must need to install Python 2.6 or 2.7 and Python-gdata(>=1.2.4)
without installing python-gdata you get error like this
Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 3, in from youtube_upload import VERSION File "/home/vinoth/youtube_upload/youtube-upload-0.7.3/youtube_upload/__init__.py", line 1, in from youtube_upload import * File "/home/vinoth/youtube_upload/youtube-upload-0.7.3/youtube_upload/youtube_upload.py", line 48, in import gdata.media ImportError: No module named gdata.media
install python-gdata
What is python-gdata?
Python-gdata – Google Data Python client library
- Distribution: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
- Repository: Ubuntu Universe i386
- Package name: python-gdata
- Package version: 2.0.14-2
- Package architecture: all
- Package type: deb
- Binary package: python-gdata_2.0.14-2_all.deb
- Source package: python-gdata
- Installed size: 2,93 MB
- Download size: 447,12 KB
The GData (Google data) APIs provide a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the web.
Each of the following Google services provides a Google data API:
Base, Blogger, Calendar, Code Search, Contacts, Document List, Google Apps Provisioning, Notebook, Picasa Web Albums, Spreadsheets & YouTube.
The Google data Python client library provides a library and source
code that make it easy to access data through Google data APIs.
$sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get install python-gdata Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: corosync libcfg6 libcmap4 libcorosync-common4 libcpg4 libibverbs1 libqb0 libquorum5 librdmacm1 libsam4 libtotem-pg5 libvotequorum6 libzookeeper-mt2 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: python-gdata-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: python-gdata 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 526 not upgraded. Need to get 466 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,856 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe python-gdata all 2.0.18+dfsg-1 [466 kB] Fetched 466 kB in 30s (15.1 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python-gdata. (Reading database ... 237282 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python-gdata_2.0.18+dfsg-1_all.deb ... Unpacking python-gdata (2.0.18+dfsg-1) ... Setting up python-gdata (2.0.18+dfsg-1) ...
python-gdata module installed successfully.
Then again run this command inside the folder of youtube-upload
$ sudo python setup.py install running install running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/youtube_upload copying youtube_upload/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/youtube_upload copying youtube_upload/youtube_upload.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/youtube_upload running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.7 copying and adjusting bin/youtube-upload -> build/scripts-2.7 changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/youtube-upload from 644 to 755 running install_lib creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/youtube_upload/__init__.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/youtube_upload/youtube_upload.py -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload/__init__.py to __init__.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload/youtube_upload.py to youtube_upload.pyc running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.7/youtube-upload -> /usr/local/bin changing mode of /usr/local/bin/youtube-upload to 755 running install_egg_info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_upload-0.7.3.egg-info
youtube upload tool is install successfully
Some Examples
$ 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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxzZ-fYjeYs $youtube-upload --email=vc@gmail.com --password=****** --title="Myvideo" --description="$(my video )" --category=Music --keyword="MYvideo" sample.mp4 my: command not found Login to Youtube API: email=vc@gmail.com', password='*********' Start upload using a HTTP post: sample.mp4 -> https://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/action/FormDataUpload/AIwbFAQ5u5G6pVBOhu-HdaQgAJhyCtiFxnHaE9si15R-VNBIrF_ViGdN_z0WE--pdo8aEvsYdI-bBAoapjwyPA_tnKDMfEfODA Install python-progressbar to see a nice progress bar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhQbD-s_VA $sudo pip install progressbar Downloading/unpacking progressbar Downloading progressbar-2.2.tar.gz Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/progressbar/setup.py) egg_info for package progressbar Installing collected packages: progressbar Running setup.py install for progressbar Successfully installed progressbar Cleaning up...
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