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a5storage_UploadVideoToYouTube Function

Syntax

p result = a5Storage_UploadVideoToYouTube(c namedProvider,c filename, c itemName[,c description,[c title,[c tags]]])

Arguments

namedProviderCharacter

The name of the namedProvider you created for uploading videos to Google

filenameCharacter

The file name of the video

itemNameCharacter

The name of the uploaded object on Google

descriptionCharacter

An optional description of the video

titleCharacter

An optional title for the video

tagsCharacter

An optional list of tags for the video

Returns

resultPointer

An object with an error and errorText property to indicate if the upload succeeded

Description

Xbasic function (a5Storage_UploadVideoToYouTube()) allows you to upload videos to a YouTube account. The function uses the Google YouTube API. In order to use the function you will first need to create a named provider for Google. You will also need to authenticate a connection to a Google account with the correct scopes.

Discussion

The a5Storage_UploadVideoToYouTube() function is optimized to quickly upload individual video files to YouTube. This can be used to upload MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, and more. MP4 is the suggested format, with the optimal quality and size characteristics. 

namedProvider = "youtubedemoAA"
fn = "C:\Jing\INJECTION.mp4"
item = file.filename_parse(fn, "ne")
p = a5Storage_UploadVideoToYouTube(namedProvider, fn, item, "desc demo upload", "title demo upload")
showvar(p) 'use showvar to see the result of the function call.

Videos

How to Upload Videos to YouTube with Alpha Anywhere

This video shows how to create a Google project and a Named Provider in Alpha Anywhere so that you can then use the a5Storage_UploadVideoToYouTube() function to upload videos to YouTube.

2023-01-05

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