mCodingYouTube

This repository contains the code I use to automatically update my videos' metadata on YouTube, including: titles, descriptions, tags, etc.

mCoding YouTube channel

The code in this repository is MIT licensed, see the file named LICENSE.

Disclaimer

The code is for educational purposes, not production use. Do not run any code that you do not understand. I am not responsible if you end up deleting or otherwise irreparably damaging your YouTube account, or getting banned from YouTube/Google services by using/misusing this code.

If you do decide to play with the code, I recommend using a dummy YouTube account so that you don't put your real account in danger. Pay close attention to the amount of quota that you use in order to avoid YouTube/Google thinking you are abusing their API.

I do not condone using or modifying the code in this API to do anything that violates YouTube/Google terms of service or any applicable laws.

Official code and docs from Google/YouTube

If you would like an official set of samples for how to use the YouTube Data API in Python, see https://github.com/youtube/api-samples/tree/master/python.

The official YouTube Data API documentation (not language specific) can be found at: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs.

Trying to follow my YouTube video?

Video: I Used the YouTube API to Update My Video Descriptions

Install dependencies (execute this from the directory containing requirements.txt):

pip install -r requirements.txt

Here are the important files:

• app_config.py: In order to avoid publishing my secret client data, I use this config to read a non-uploaded file containing the location of my secret file. If you want to modify the code to work for yourself, you can hard-code the location of your client secret file here, or use dotenv like I did.

• youtube.py: Contains the code to make an authenticated YouTube service object. You shouldn't need to change anything in this file.

• download_single_video_data.py: Script to download the snippet metadata to a file for a video with known video id. I recommend making a data directory and putting all your downloaded data there to avoid clutter.

• download_my_uploads.py: Script to download the playlist item snippets for all your uploads and save each page of results to a file.

• update_description_on_youtube.py: Functions for updating a single video description.

• simple_prepend_to_descriptions.py: Script to load data saved using download_my_uploads.py and prepend text read from a file to all your uploaded videos by using functions from update_description_on_youtube.py in a loop.