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I was looking through the Google API docs and could not find anything on uploading YouTube shorts. Does anybody know of a way?
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There are two ways to upload videos to YouTube. You can do it manually though the YouTube web application or you can do it programmatically though the YouTube data api. The YouTube data api has a cost based quota system.
You can upload short videos you created without YouTube's short-video creation tools. To upload a Short from a computer: Sign in to YouTube Studio.
The API provides the ability to retrieve feeds related to videos, users, and playlists. It also provides the ability to manipulate these feeds, such as creating new playlists, adding videos as favorites, and sending messsages. The API is also able to upload videos.
If you want to create your YouTube video outside the mobile app and upload a Short, either manually or using YouTube’s API, take the following steps: Create a video 60 seconds or less in duration in the video recorder of your choice. Add the hashtag #Shorts to either the title or description.
YouTube Shorts are short videos similar to Instagram Reels and TikTok videos. They are slowly becoming quite popular and generate many views. If you like creating video content, you can publish your own YouTube Short videos from Android, iPhone, or a computer. Let’s see how to do so.
Open the YouTube app on your Android phone or iPhone. 2. Tap on the + (Add) button present in the bottom tab. Select Create a short from the menu. Grant the necessary permissions like Microphone and Camera, if asked. In case you don’t see YouTube Shorts on mobile apps, find out how to fix Shorts not showing up. 3.
Tap on Upload short. Just like Popular uploads, Playlists, Live streams, etc., sections that appear on the main screen of your YouTube channel, you can add the Short videos section too. This helps in getting more views on the short videos.
As of today, it seems that "Shorts" are just plain Youtube videos, because really any Youtube video can be regarded as a "Shorts" video by appending its id to the shorts route, even if it's a 24 hours long video, for example this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4dhIvyskkB0.
So just upload a video.
However, it seems that the question should better be: What could raise the chances that a Youtube video be "promoted" by Youtube as a "Shorts" video?
To which the answer is: Follow Youtube's guidelines, provided here:
#shorts hashtag (snippet.title).#shorts hashtag to your description (snippet.description).videos endpoint request body documentation is here.Maybe once "Shorts" get out of beta, things would get more strict.
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