Simple Telegram Bot to Upload videos to Youtube written in Python3.
This is a simple hobby project which I was really curious about to implement. This is a Telegram bot which uses Youtube Data API v3 to upload videos to Youtube.
❗ This project requires Python3.6 or higher
Clone and setup virtual environment
$ git clone https://github.com/odysseusmax/utube.git
$ cd utube
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
Environment Variables
BOT_TOKEN
(Required) - Get your bot token from Bot Father.SESSION_NAME
(optional) - Your bot's username.API_ID
(Required) - Your telegram api id, get from Manage Apps.API_HASH
(Required) - Your telegram api hash, get from Manage Apps.CLIENT_ID
(Required) - Your google client id.CLIENT_SECRET
(Required) - Your google client secret.BOT_OWNER
(Required) - Telegram id of bot owner.AUTH_USERS
(optional) - Telegram id's of authorised users, separated by,
.VIDEO_DESCRIPTION
(optional) - Any default description to be aded to the video.VIDEO_CATEGORY
(optional) - YouTube's video category id. If not specified or specified id is invalid, category id will be selected randomly.VIDEO_TITLE_PREFIX
(optional) - Any prefix to be added to the video's title.VIDEO_TITLE_SUFFIX
(optional) - Any suffix to be added to the video's title.UPLOAD_MODE
(optional) - The video's privacy status. Valid values for this property are:private
,public
,unlisted
.DEBUG
(optional) - Whether to set logging level to DEBUG. If set logging will be set to DEBUG level, else INFO level.
Getting your CLIENT_ID
and CLIENT_SECRET
- Head to Google console, create a new project named
Youtube Uploader
and enableAPI'S AND SERVISES
. Search forYOUTUBE DATA API v3
and enable the API. Go to Credentials page, select your projectYoutube Uploader
create a new credential withdesktop
as type. Copy theCLIENT_ID
andCLIENT_SECRET
. - You have to verify your application with google, only then you can make the uploaded videos public. YouTube changed its developer policy, and videos uploaded using unverfied applications will be kept private.
Install requirements
Run :
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Run bot
Lets run our bot for the first time!
$ python3 -m bot
If you did everything correctly, the bot should be running. Go do /start
to see if the bot is live or not. Follow the instructions provided by bot to setup authorisation and to start uploading.
Or the easy way of directly deploying to heroku
This project is actively maintained and will continue so until I'm tired of it.
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With the Youtube Data API you are awarded with 10,000 points of requests. For one video upload it costs 1605 points, regardless of file size, which calculates to about 6 uploads daily. Once you have exhausted your daily points, you have to wait till daily reset. Resets happens at 0:00 PST, i.e. 12:30 IST. So make your uploads count.
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Uploading copyright contents will leads to immediate blocking of the video.
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By default, all the videos are uploaded as private with random category id unless you provide
UPLOAD_MODE
andVIDEO_CATEGORY
. You may change it after youtube processes the video.
Here's a YouTube tutorial video for deploying the bot on Heroku. Video Link.
You can contact me @likh0n.
Code released under GNU General Public License v3.0.