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Google Apps Script Tutorial to Upload Video From Google Drive to Youtube Using Javascript
Dec 21, 2025
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Uh hello friends, today in this tutorial
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I will be showing you that how basically
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you can upload a video which is present
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inside your Google drive to directly to
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YouTube as a private or public video
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accordingly. So you can see that this is
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my YouTube channel here bas basically it
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doesn't contain any video out there. No
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video is present. Now let me uh run this
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Google app script. Basically Google
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appcript is just a platform where you
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can directly interact with all the
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Google APIs such as Google Drive,
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YouTube API, Gmail API, spreadsheet. So
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you can see this is my video here which
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is hosted on Google Drive and basically
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I need to directly upload this video to
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YouTube as a private video. So you will
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need this uh video ID guys of this uh
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Google Drive video. So anytime basically
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if you upload a video here, let me show
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you. You select that video and right
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click at and simply click on get link.
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So you will get this link of this video
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guys. Basically if you just copy this
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link and paste it in the browser and
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basically you just need this ID here
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which is there. This is the ID that you
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see for every video. So simply copy this
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ID guys and simply we need to paste this
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ID here which is this ID. You will see
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that. So here inside this code I will
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paste it and then basically the privacy
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status you will see it is private and if
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I now run this script here basically it
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will it will run this script and
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execution started you will see that and
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now after that it will return me you can
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see if I refresh it basically a video
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will be there here automatically
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published here you will see the title is
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summer location you can see whatever
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title that we need to give here 95
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processing and you will see it will be a
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private video. So you will see that
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after processing is complete. It will
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label this visibility as private. So
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automatically our video is uploaded guys
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to YouTube. You don't need to manually
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do this process. So it's very simple.
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So it's just processing it and uh then
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the visibility will change to the
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private. You will see that if you see
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this the details section and basically
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you will see uh the title you can
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customize the title here. You can change
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the description of the video. You can
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even put tags here category ID and then
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you can put the
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private status. So then we are simply
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using the insert method guys of the
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YouTube data API which offers this uh
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direct method to upload it to the
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YouTube. You will see now it changed to
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private here. So you can see uh what
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private video simply means that this
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video will not appear on your channel or
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search results. Only you have the access
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to view this video. So you can even uh
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just directly publish a public video as
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well. If I open this on YouTube, you
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will see that this is a video and which
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is hosted here. You will see that
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now it is 16 second video is there. So
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very simple process. You need to simply
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run the script Google app script if you
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want to directly publish videos from
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your Google drive directly to YouTube as
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a private video. So I have given this
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source code in the description of this
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video guys. So if you want to read all
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the blog post step by step instruction
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is given here and all the source code is
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also given. So if you really want to get
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this source code go to the description
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of this blog post. So now let me start
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building the script guys. As I already
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told you this these are all Google APIs.
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So Google has developed specifically
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Google appcript for writing
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directly interacting with Google APIs.
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So it's a special scripting platform and
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all that code is similar to JavaScript.
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If you know JavaScript, you can write
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code here. Simply go to here and click
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on start scripting. And here we need to
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create a brand new project here guys. So
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simply click on brand new project and
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here we can start our coding process. So
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it's very simple. So we will write a
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function here which will be called as
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upload
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video to YouTube. So this is a function.
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You can name this function anything
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accordingly. Just make your function.
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After this guys we will get the source
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file video file that we need to say. And
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for this guys we need to use the drive
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app. Basically this is the API of Google
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drive and it contains a lot of methods.
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You can get the video file or any sort
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of file by its ID. This is a method
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which is used here. Drive file sorry
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drive app dot get file by its ID. So
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again I have shown you how to get the
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ID. So simply copy this ID here if you
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want to upload this. So simply I will
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paste this ID.
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So after this we will simply
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now to get this blob object guys it's
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very simple. Now to get the blob object
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we will simply invoke a method called as
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get blob. So it will actually convert
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the video return the data from this
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video to a blob object. That's it. So
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after you do this it's very simple.
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This is now complete here. And after
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this we need to create a object for the
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video. So this will contain useful
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information about the video such as
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title, description, tax. So we can give
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it a title for the video. Let's suppose
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I give here sample
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whiteboard
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whiteboard video. So I give this title.
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Put a comma and you need to give a a a
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short little description. This will be
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this is the description of
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the whiteboard video.
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So put a comma and then you need to put
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a tax here out there. So you can put a
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tax out there. Let's suppose surfing or
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send or we can simply say here
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whiteboard
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animation
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and also you can put a category ID guys
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as well.
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So there are different categories out
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inside YouTube technology, education. So
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you can just name just give it the
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category ID as well. So let me give it
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22.
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So each category have a different number
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assigned to it. So just read the
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documentation and depending upon that
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just give it.
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So after you put this object guys we
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need to put the status of the video as
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well. This will be again a object which
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contains a property called as privacy
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status.
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So this can be either be public or
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private or unlisted. So I will provide
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it as private. You will see that
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sorry I think tax is category. You need
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to put a comma here.
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Uh let me see why it is creating the
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problem. And we paste it here.
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So
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let me paste this guys. I think I have
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made a mistake here in writing this.
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Okay. Okay. I forgot to enclose this.
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Yeah, this is
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okay. I need to surround this status
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property guys inside the category
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itself. So that's why the error was
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coming. So now you can see there's a
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status property here. You can see that
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inside our video resource. So this is
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our object guys which contains these
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five properties title, description,
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tags, category, ID and the status of the
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video. After you have this object guys,
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you will simply insert this video inside
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YouTube. So we have a now we will
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interact with the YouTube API. So there
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is a YouTube here and here YouTube
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videos and this contains a method called
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as insert guys and basically
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this method takes our video object video
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resource and then basically it it
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returns the snippet and the status. So
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whether the video is uploaded or not and
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then basically we will pass the name of
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the video the video itself which is
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contained inside source file. That's it.
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Now you can console log the response
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coming from the API whether it's
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uploaded or not console logging it. This
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is not complete guys. So if you save
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this and before running this project
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guys uh line number 11 some kind of
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error take place. Yeah, that's that's
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because uh I have spelled something not
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right. This needs to be
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YouTube.
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So simply save this. So
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unexpected.
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Let me copy this.
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You can see that insert and this
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I think you need to add the services
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guys here that's why it is creating a
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problem. So now we need to interact with
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the Google API. So we need to add them.
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So in the left hand side in the services
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tab you need to add individual service
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here which is first of all we will add
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the drive API that you see right here.
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So this is a Google drive API. Simply
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click on add. So this will add your
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service of Google drive so that you can
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use fetch the video file from the drive
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and also you need to add our uh YouTube
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data API. Simply click on add. So this
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will also add the service here. So upon
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adding this simply click on save.
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Uh what is I think
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let me paste there some I think why it
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is creating so much error. Let me change
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the title.
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Sample whiteboard video.
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This is the description.
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So now if you click on save here,
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so your project is saved guys. So it was
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just a writing mistake. So now if you
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click on the run option guys, there is a
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run option to run your script. And now
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it will ask for the permissions. So
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whenever you run for the very first time
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guys, it will ask for some of the
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permissions to run. So you need to allow
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those permissions if you want to run
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your project.
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So you can see authorization required.
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So click on this and basically
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it's your own project. So simply go to
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advance and this one. So it is
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completely safe and you can see it is
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asking you to give the permissions. So
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see and download all your Google Drive
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files and manage your YouTube account so
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that it can upload and delete files. So
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simply click on allow and
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you can see execution started and
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basically after uploading it will return
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this object to us which is this
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thumbnail title which is if I now
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refresh it go to my video section you
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will now see
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sample whiteboard video. So whatever
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title I given here you can see that now
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it is processing it and basically after
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processing it
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you can see private video is uploaded.
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So in this easy way guys you can upload
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any video which is hosted on Google
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drive directly to YouTube using this
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simple script Google app script that I
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shown you with the simple title
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description and you can even change the
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status to public private or unlisted. So
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all the source code is given in the
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description of this video and please hit
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that like button, subscribe the channel
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and I will be seeing you in the next