YouTube Upload

This repository provides a PowerShell script for uploading videos to YouTube using the YouTube API v3. The script is designed for easy command-line interaction and can be configured to use environment variables for sensitive data like API keys.

Features

• Upload videos to YouTube directly from the command line.
• Supports video metadata such as title, description, tags, and privacy settings.
• Automatically splits large videos for uploading.

Requirements

• PowerShell 7.0 or higher
• YouTube Data API v3 credentials

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/dszubov/youtube-upload.git
   cd youtube-upload

2. Configure your .env file with the required environment variables:

   FOLDER_PATH=C:\path\to\your\videos
   API_KEY=youtube-upload-credentials.json
   

3. Run the script:

   .\youtube-upload.ps1

Usage

The script uploads all .mp4 files from the specified folder to YouTube using the metadata defined in the script. Ensure that you have your client_secrets.json and credentials configured as per Google’s documentation.

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have improvements or feature requests.