Upload videos to Youtube.com with bash

youtube.bash

#!/bin/sh
#
# Bash script for uploading videos to Youtube.com
#
# Usage: 
#  ./youtube.bash path-to-movie-movie.mov
#
# Setup
# Goto https://console.developers.google.com 
# Create app, enable Youtube Data API and create OAuth credentials, client id and client secret. 
# Goto https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ to authorize yourself and get a refresh token

# Plug in client id, client secret and refresh token here
client_id="[your client id goes here]"
client_secret="[your client secret goes here]"
refresh_token="[your refresh token obtained from oauthplayground goes here]"

cid_base_url="apps.googleusercontent.com"
client_id="$client_id.$cid_base_url"

token_url="https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"
api_base_url="https://www.googleapis.com/upload/youtube/v3"
api_url="$api_base_url/videos?part=snippet"
access_token=$(curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d refresh_token="$refresh_token" -d client_id="$client_id" -d client_secret="$client_secret"  -d grant_type="refresh_token" $token_url| awk -F '"' '/access/{print $4}')
auth_header="Authorization: Bearer $access_token"
curl -v --data-binary "@$1" -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" -H "$auth_header" "$api_url"

youtube_update.bash

#!/bin/sh
#
# ./youtube.bash '{"json goes here as explained below"}'
#
# Slightly more complicated
#
# To update a Youtube video you have to PUT a JSON document with the following structure.. 
#
# {"id": "id of youtube video", "snippet": { "title": "goes here", "description": "goes here", "categoryId": "goes here"}, "status":{"privacyStatus":"unlisted"}}

json_data="$1"

client_id="goes here"
client_secret="goes here"
refresh_token="goes here"

cid_base_url="apps.googleusercontent.com"
client_id="$client_id.$cid_base_url"

token_url="https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"
api_base_url="https://www.googleapis.com/upload/youtube/v3"
api_url="$api_base_url/videos?part=snippet"

access_token=$(curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d refresh_token="$refresh_token" -d client_id="$client_id" -d client_secret="$client_secret"  -d grant_type="refresh_token" $token_url| awk -F '"' '/access/{print $4}')
auth_header="Authorization: Bearer $access_token"

curl -v -i -X PUT -d "$json_data" -H "$auth_header" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8" "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,status&fields=snippet,status"