Youtube Video Insert returns "default" video resource - python-2.7

Question

I'm trying to upload a video from an S3 bucket to YouTube, and getting back strange output that implies a successful post, but doesn't give anything expected back. As well, I set attributes like title and description in my code, but as you can see from the output, this isn't actually being set.
Example Output:
{
"id": "-pfZ_BNH9kg",
"snippet": {
"channelId": "UCZ5AUe-rp3rXKeFS0yx4ZBA",
"title": "unknown",
"channelTitle": "Patrick Hanford",
"publishedAt": "2020-04-30T19:22:15.000Z",
"thumbnails": {
"high": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-pfZ_BNH9kg/hqdefault.jpg",
"height": 360,
"width": 480
},
"default": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-pfZ_BNH9kg/default.jpg",
"height": 90,
"width": 120
},
"medium": {
"url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-pfZ_BNH9kg/mqdefault.jpg",
"height": 180,
"width": 320
}
},
"localized": {
"title": "unknown",
"description": ""
},
"liveBroadcastContent": "none",
"categoryId": "20",
"description": ""
},
"etag": "Dn5xIderbhAnUk5TAW0qkFFir0M/3T1YGvGo1YyaTKtTpl8JrJqWS4M",
"status": {
"embeddable": true,
"privacyStatus": "public",
"uploadStatus": "uploaded",
"publicStatsViewable": true,
"license": "youtube"
},
"kind": "youtube#video"
}
Upload Code:
def post(self, attempts=None):
TEST_VIDEO = "http://streamon-perm.s3.amazonaws.com/WPHM-48k-pl-33366.mp4"
headers = {"Content-Type": "video/mp4"}
upload_request_body = {
"snippet": {
"title": "Test Video Upload",
"description": "This is a test of uploading videos.",
"categoryId": "22",
},
"status": {
"privacyStatus": "public"
},
"fileDetails": {
"fileName": TEST_VIDEO,
"fileType": "video"
}
}
params = {
"access_token": self.google_token.get("access_token", None),
"id": self.google_token.get("id_token", None),
"part": "snippet, status"
}
extra = {
"client_id": self.client_id,
"client_secret": self.client_secret
}
google_oauth_session = OAuth2Session(
self.client_id,
token=self.google_token,
auto_refresh_url=self.token_url,
auto_refresh_kwargs=extra,
token_updater=self._save_token
)
upload_response = google_oauth_session.post(
self.video_post_url,
headers=headers,
json=upload_request_body,
params=params
)
logger.info("Response from VIDEO UPLOAD: %s", repr(upload_response.content))
return True
I have also tried downloading the file from S3 and uploading with the file directly, and I get the same result. Without proper error messages or anything to go off of, I'm really not sure what to try next. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have also tried using requests by itself rather than using oauthlib with exactly the same result.
def post(self, attempts=None):
if attempts is None:
attempts = 0
if self.neutered:
msg = "Youtube post() disabled by ENVIRONMENT variables."
logger.info(msg)
return msg
logger.info("Youtube post() entered with attempt # %s", self.post_attempts)
if self.google_token is None:
self.google_token = self._set_google_token()
attempts += 1
self.post(attempts=attempts)
headers = {
"Content-Type": "video/mp4",
"client_id": self.client_id,
"client_secret": self.client_secret,
"Authorization": "Bearer " + self.google_token["access_token"]
}
params = {
"access_token": self.google_token.get("access_token", None),
"id": self.google_token.get("id_token", None),
"part": "snippet, status"
}
upload_request_body = {
"snippet": {
"title": "Test Video Upload",
"description": "This is a test of uploading videos from POST.",
"categoryId": "22",
},
"status": {
"privacyStatus": "public"
},
"fileDetails": {
"fileName": TEST_VIDEO,
"fileType": "video"
}
}
upload_response = requests.post(
self.video_post_url,
params=params,
headers=headers,
json=upload_request_body
)
logger.info("Response from VIDEO UPLOAD: %s", repr(upload_response.content))
return True

Answer 1

I have also tried downloading the file from S3 and uploading with the file directly, and I get the same result.
Your have this issue probably due to the fact that you are not actually sending the file. upload_request_body.fileDetails.fileName is not the place for the link/file. It's just a description attribute.
Have you tried an auto-generated code from https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/code_snippets ?
This is what you can get there:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Sample Python code for youtube.videos.insert
# NOTES:
# 1. This sample code uploads a file and can't be executed via this interface.
# To test this code, you must run it locally using your own API credentials.
# See: https://developers.google.com/explorer-help/guides/code_samples#python
# 2. This example makes a simple upload request. We recommend that you consider
# using resumable uploads instead, particularly if you are transferring large
# files or there's a high likelihood of a network interruption or other
# transmission failure. To learn more about resumable uploads, see:
# https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/guide/media_upload
import os
import googleapiclient.discovery
from googleapiclient.http import MediaFileUpload
def main():
# Disable OAuthlib's HTTPS verification when running locally.
# *DO NOT* leave this option enabled in production.
os.environ["OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT"] = "1"
api_service_name = "youtube"
api_version = "v3"
DEVELOPER_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
youtube = googleapiclient.discovery.build(
api_service_name, api_version, developerKey = DEVELOPER_KEY)
request = youtube.videos().insert(
part="snippet,status",
body={
"fileDetails": {
"fileName": "qwer",
"fileType": "video"
},
"snippet": {
"categoryId": "22",
"description": "This is a test of uploading videos.",
"title": "Test Video Upload"
},
"status": {
"privacyStatus": "public"
}
},
# TODO: For this request to work, you must replace "YOUR_FILE"
# with a pointer to the actual file you are uploading.
media_body=MediaFileUpload("YOUR_FILE")
)
response = request.execute()
print(response)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
I believe it should work.
Or is there any reason not to use googleapiclient?
I'm trying to upload a video from an S3 bucket to YouTube
I doubt that you can upload files from other sites directly to Youtube. Probably you are stuck with the option of uploading files from your own server/drive. I've looked up on the Internet but all I've found is that you can't (although you could in the past). And one can imagine a lot of reasons why this is not allowed (mostly copyright but not exclusively).
Update:
Probably, that was not an exhaustive code snippet. Especially, considering that you need OAuth2.
But here is another one:
https://github.com/youtube/api-samples/blob/master/python/upload_video.py
And yet another:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video
With OAuth2. There you can also find information on client_secrets.json.
{
"web": {
"client_id": "[[INSERT CLIENT ID HERE]]",
"client_secret": "[[INSERT CLIENT SECRET HERE]]",
"redirect_uris": [],
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"
}
}
Also you can checkout some real life projects. For example this one: https://github.com/HA6Bots/Automatic-Youtube-Reddit-Text-To-Speech-Video-Generator-and-Uploader/tree/master/Youtube%20Bot%20Video%20Generator