Add YouTube upload examples

[bradorego]

Nothing too fancy here, but I'm trying to use the YouTube API and I'm basically brute-forcing my way to success. I've got playlist creation down so far, and I can upload a video, but I haven't figured out how to set information about the video (e.g. title, privacy, etc) and it's really frustrating. This would be a lot easier if there were examples to work off of.

[stephenwithav]

@bradorego I'm about to tread down this same path. Did you ever have any success?

[bradorego]

I had to dig through some old code (as I'm no longer working on this project) but I think this might be helpful?

var uploadVideo = function (file, title, description) {
  var d = $q.defer();
  youtube.videos.insert({
    part: 'snippet,status',
    resource: {
      snippet: {
        title: title,
        description: description
      },
      status: {
        privacyStatus: "unlisted"
      }
    },
    media: {
      mimeType: file.mimetype,
      body: fs.readFileSync(file.path)
    }
  }, function (err, result, response) {
    if (err) {
      console.error(err);
      return d.reject(err);
    }
    del.sync([file.path]); /// clean up file after upload success
    d.resolve(result);
  }); /// end video upload
  return d.promise;
};

Edit: Wow, that did not style nicely at all. Here's a gist: https://gist.github.com/bradorego/c9ea8b669d3b9d0914c4bf25184dcb3a

[stephenwithav]

Thank you, sir! That'll save me a good bit of time reading through the API re: part. :)

[jmdobry]

Sorry there's no explicit example. I just looked, this library currently supports 4,227 API calls across 155 different Google APIs 😮

Luckily, the API reference documentation is complete for the Youtube API. Here's the relevant bit that details the properties available on the resource object shown in the example above: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#resource

[stephenwithav]

Thank you, @jmdobry. Here is a link to the settable properties of resource:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/insert#parameters