mlwarren / youtube-uploader

Command line Java application which allows user to upload videos to Youtube from a Windows or Linux command line.

Youtube-Uploader

Command line tool to allow uploading of video files from Linux or Windows command line to Youtube.

Prerequisites

OpenJDK 6+

Installing

In project root directory run Maven to build project .zip and .tar packages:

mvn clean package

The resulting build will output files:

youtube-uploader-v1-package.zip
youtube-uploader-v1-package.tar.gz

Unzipping the packages will yield a .jar file and a config directory. The config directory has placeholder files for:

client_secret.json
developer.key

Before running the .jar, these files must be replaced with the appropriate configuration files from Google. You can learn more about the client_secret.json and obtaining a developer key here.

Running

You may run the executable jar file with the following syntax:

java -jar youtube-uploader-v1.jar [video path]