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Nat 20 Pixels uploader

The Nat 20 Pixels uploader is the project's own tool for publishing its episodes on the @Nat20px YouTube channel. It uses YouTube API Services (the YouTube Data API v3). It is an internal tool: it has no user interface and no other users, and it only ever acts on the project's own channel.

What it does

When an episode is finished, a GitHub Actions workflow (youtube.yml) runs the uploader (scripts/youtube_upload.py), which:

  1. signs in as the channel owner with OAuth 2.0 (a refresh token created once by the owner);
  2. uploads the episode video with its title, description, chapters and tags, declared as not made for kids, and schedules its premiere (videos.insert, with status.publishAt);
  3. sets the episode's custom thumbnail (thumbnails.set);
  4. adds the video to the season playlist (playlistItems.insert);
  5. every day, re-checks the IDs of the videos it uploaded (videos.list) so that nothing it has stored is older than 30 days, and links each premiered episode from this wiki.

channels.list is used only to confirm which channel the credentials belong to. One episode is published per weekday, so it makes a handful of API calls a day.

Your data

The uploader collects nothing about viewers or other YouTube users. See the privacy policy for exactly what it accesses, stores and deletes, and the terms of service. Use of the uploader is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

The account owner can revoke its access at any time from the Google account's third-party access settings.

Source

The complete source code is public: https://github.com/Nat20-Pixel-Saga/Nat20-Pixel-Saga. Run history: Actions → youtube.