Google Apps Script Tutorial to Upload Video From Google Drive to Youtube Using Javascript

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be uploading video from google drive to youtube using google apps script in javascript. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make a new google apps script project and copy paste the code inside the code.gs file as shown below

code.gs

function uploadToYoutube(){
const sourceFile = DriveApp.getFileById("##googledrivevideoid##").getBlob();
const videoResource = {
  snippet: {
    title: 'Summer vacation in California',
    description: 'Had a great time surfing in Santa Cruz',
    tags: [ 'surfing', 'Santa Cruz', ],
    categoryId: '22',
  },
  status: {privacyStatus: 'private'}  // Added
};
const newVideo = YouTube.Videos.insert( videoResource, "snippet,status", sourceFile);  // Modified
console.log(newVideo)
}

function uploadToYoutube(){

const sourceFile = DriveApp.getFileById("##googledrivevideoid##").getBlob();

const videoResource = {

snippet: {

title: 'Summer vacation in California',

description: 'Had a great time surfing in Santa Cruz',

tags: [ 'surfing', 'Santa Cruz', ],

categoryId: '22',

status: {privacyStatus: 'private'} // Added

};

const newVideo = YouTube.Videos.insert( videoResource, "snippet,status", sourceFile); // Modified

console.log(newVideo)

}

As you can see we are making the function which takes the video from the google drive and take it’s video id and upload it to youtube as a private video and also we are setting the basic information about the video such as the title and description using the drive and youtube api. For this you need to to drive and select the video you want to upload and then get it’s shareable link and from that you need to copy paste the video id and paste it in the above script. The process is shown below

Enabling the Google Drive and Youtube Services

Now we also need to enable the google drive and youtube api services. At the left hand side you will find the section of services we need to click on that as shown below

Now you just need to run the method to execute the script which will automatically fetch the google drive video and upload it to youtube as a private video