Upload Video with YouTube (Data API) API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Upload Video with the YouTube (Data API) API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Upload Video action
1. Connect your YouTube (Data API) account
2. Configure Title
3. Configure Description
4. Optional- Configure File URL
5. Optional- Configure File Path
6. Optional- Select a Privacy Status
7. Optional- Configure Publish At
8. Optional- Configure Tags
9. Optional- Configure Notify Subscribers
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Upload Video on YouTube (Data API)

Description:Post a video to your channel. [See the docs](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/insert) for more information

Version:0.0.6

Key:youtube_data_api-upload-video

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Code#

import youtubeDataApi from "../../youtube_data_api.app.mjs";
import common from "./common.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "youtube_data_api-upload-video",
  name: "Upload Video",
  description: "Post a video to your channel. [See the docs](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/insert) for more information",
  version: "0.0.6",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    youtubeDataApi,
    title: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "title",
      ],
    },
    description: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "description",
      ],
    },
    fileUrl: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "fileUrl",
      ],
    },
    filePath: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "filePath",
      ],
    },
    privacyStatus: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "privacyStatus",
      ],
    },
    publishAt: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "publishAt",
      ],
    },
    tags: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "tags",
      ],
    },
    notifySubscribers: {
      propDefinition: [
        youtubeDataApi,
        "notifySubscribers",
      ],
    },
    ...common.props,
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
YouTube (Data API)	`youtubeDataApi`	`app`	This component uses the YouTube (Data API) app.
Title	`title`	`string`	The video's title
Description	`description`	`string`	The video's description
File URL	`fileUrl`	`string`	The URL of the video file you want to upload to YouTube. Must specify either File URL or File Path.
File Path	`filePath`	`string`	Path to the video file to upload (e.g., `/tmp/myVideo.mp4`). Must specify either File URL or File Path.
Privacy Status	`privacyStatus`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`privatepublicunlisted`
Publish At	`publishAt`	`string`	The date and time when the video is scheduled to publish. If you set this, the Privacy Status must be set to `private`. Only available to Youtube Partner accounts.
Tags	`tags`	`string[]`	A list of keyword tags associated with the video. Tags may contain spaces.
Notify Subscribers	`notifySubscribers`	`boolean`	Set to `true` if YouTube should send a notification about the new video to users who subscribe to the video's channel.

Authentication#

YouTube (Data API) uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your YouTube (Data API) account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into YouTube (Data API) and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any YouTube (Data API) API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.uploadhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube