youtube-batch-upload

This tool will do a batch video, subtitle, and thumbnail upload to any YouTube channel including adding information such as description, and title automatically. In short, it read all materials' information from macro-excel and upload them accordingly. The tool will return a set of video URLs which will be used as an input for creating video content of edx.org online course instance

Please see the pptx of pdf file for further instructions and youtube video https://youtu.be/PSaWd7bDChM

This tool consists of 3 parts

1. a Python script which was developed based on YouTube data API provided by Google. So far, it has 3 functions, uploading videos, subtitles, and Thumbnails.
2. an macro-excel file where information about video files (ex. mp4, wmv, etc.), subtitle fils(ex. srt, vtt,etc.), and thumbnail(ex. png, jpg) are contained according to the format prepared.
3. a credential file of your YouTube account. To upload videos with this tool, however, it needs the credential file for authorization. Click here for more detail of how to obtain the credential

dependencies

• xlrd, xlwt, http.client, httplib2
• Google API Client Libraries

test environment

Python 3 run on Windows 10