Upload a video to youtube with node.js

Question

I've made some headway with the official Google API node client but I've reached a bit of a dead end figuring out how to get my video file up to youtube.

I have a video: example.mp4

I have this code:

OAuth2Client = googleapis.OAuth2Client;               
var oauth2Client = new OAuth2Client('XXXXXX', 'XXXXXXX', 'http://callback_url');

googleapis.discover('youtube', 'v3').execute(function(err, client) {
  if (err) console.log(err);
  // I think the following is the bones of what I want to do
  client.youtube.videos.insert({}).execute(function(err, client) {
    if (err) console.log(err);
  }); 
});

I only get an error using the insert method (which I expected with no params passed), the client initialises and returns fine.

I'm not sure how to pass the video (in the same directory as the script) to YouTube. Just a pointer would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

How about this code:

var googleapis = require('googleapis');

googleapis.discover('youtube', 'v3').execute(function(err, client) {

var metadata = {
    snippet: { title:'title', description: 'description'}, 
    status: { privacyStatus: 'private' }
};

client
    .youtube.videos.insert({ part: 'snippet,status'}, metadata)
    .withMedia('video/mp4', fs.readFileSync('user.flv'))
    .withAuthClient(auth)
    .execute(function(err, result) {
        if (err) console.log(err);
        else console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, '  '));
    });
});

Answer 2

You could use this package to do that: https://github.com/h2non/youtube-video-api