YouTube Upload from Markdown Notes | Generated by AI

Home 2026.07 English 中文

---

Here’s what was built and wired up:

Created: ww/gen_video/youtube_upload.py

• YouTube upload module that reads a markdown note’s YAML frontmatter for title/description/tags
• Uploads the MP4 to YouTube via the YouTube Data API v3 with resumable upload
• Supports --public, --unlisted, --credential, --description, --tags options
• OAuth 2.0 flow: opens browser for auth, caches token at ~/.google/youtube_token.json
• Requires client_secret.json at ~/.google/client_secret.json (setup instructions in error message)

Modified: ww/main.py

• gen-video dispatch now checks for upload subcommand before falling through to the existing video generation
• ww gen-video <file> still works exactly as before
• ww gen-video upload <note_path> <mp4_path> routes to the new upload module
• Help text updated to show both commands

Modified: ~/.zsh/completions/_ww

• Added gen_video_cmds array with upload entry
• Added case entry for gen-video in the subcmd dispatch
• Added gen-video upload completion with file suggestions for *.md (note) and *.mp4 (video)

Installed dependencies:

• google-api-python-client, google-auth-oauthlib via uv add

Verified:

• ww gen-video upload --help — shows proper usage
• ww gen-video --help — old behavior preserved
• ww gen-video upload some_note.md — error: missing mp4_path
• ww gen-video upload /path/to/note.md /nonexistent/video.mp4 — error: video not found
• Main help (ww) shows both gen-video entries

To actually upload, you’ll need to:

1. Create a Google Cloud project → enable YouTube Data API v3 → create OAuth 2.0 Desktop credentials
2. Save the JSON as ~/.google/client_secret.json
3. Run ww gen-video upload notes/your-post.md output.mp4

---

Generated by AI. Curating and sharing still takes effort. If you find it useful, feel free to donate. WeChat: @lzwjava · X: @lzwjava · Say hi 👋

Back Donate