Wrote script to upload bunch of videos to youtube through YouTube API:

To get developer’s key, visit: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/dashboard/gwt/index.html

Thanks to kylejginavan@github for this cool gem: YouTube It

Usage:

ruby youtube-it.rb --user <user@gmail.com> --password <password_for_gmail> --key <your_dev_key> *.avi

Before run

gem install youtube_it -r

Code:

# encoding: utf-8

require "rubygems"
require "openssl"
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
require "youtube_it"
require "fileutils"
require "ostruct"
require "optparse"

$stdout.sync = true

options = OpenStruct.new

optparse = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = "Usage: #{$0} [options] file1[ file2 ...]"

  opts.on("-u", "--user USERNAME", "[REQUIRED] Specify username for youtube account") do |username|
    options.username = username
  end

  opts.on(:REQUIRED, "-p", "--password PASSWORD", "[REQUIRED] Specify password for youtube account") do |password|
    options.password = password
  end

  opts.on("-k", "--key KEY", "[REQUIRED] Specify developer's key for youtube account") do |dev_key|
    options.dev_key = dev_key
  end

  opts.on_tail("-h", "--help", "Display this screen") do
    puts opts
    exit
  end
end

optparse.parse!

if options.username.nil? || options.password.nil? || options.dev_key.nil? || ARGV.size == 0
  puts optparse
  exit
end

client = YouTubeIt::Client.new({
  :username => options.username,
  :password => options.password,
  :dev_key => options.dev_key
})

ARGV.each do |filepath|
  (puts "File #{filepath} doesn't exists. Skipping."; next) unless File.exists?(filepath)

  begin
    print filepath

    title = File.basename(filepath, File.extname(filepath))
    title[0] = title[0, 1].upcase
    title.gsub!(/\s*(\-|_)\s*/iu, ' ')

    client.video_upload(File.open(filepath), {
      :title => title,
      :description => title,
      :category => "Travel"
    })

    puts " .. OK!"
  rescue Exception => e
    puts "", e, "Sleeping 30s", ""
    sleep 30
    retry
  end
end