I had the initial idea that content between platform is very transformative. A lot of Youtube content could be transformed into TikTok content, Instagram to Facebook, Reddit to YouTube, etc. So I decided to start with a slice of this idea. Reddit to Youtube. I chose to make the videos in Youtube shorts format since it's a new field on Youtube, less established, more likely to gain following.
At the same time, I wanted to work with automated video editing, EC2 and SSH, and managing code and files in more pythonic and organized way.
I designed the code so that it could be uploaded to an AWS EC2 to make this process fully automatic and in the background.
main.py is designed to do the following:
Get posts from PRAW API via reddit_scraper.py → download first post that's under 3 min (shorts limit) → render video in vertical format via render.py → upload to youtube via uploadYT.py
uploadYT.py is modified sample code from Google's YouTube Data 4 API
edit config.py for desired setttings
Reddit API and YouTube Data 4 API are used. YouTube API is kind of a pain to set up; there are videos on it on YouTube (meta!). Replace client_secrets.json key with key provided by YouTube Data 4 API. Ensure that 'Manage your YouTube videos' is enabled.
- httplib2
- apiclient
- oauth2client
- moviepy → you will need ffmpeg with it
- skimage → for effects in
render.py(such as blur) - praw
- redvid
Feel free to fork and play around with it. If you're going to use the code commercially, let me know.