Upload from Mathematica to YouTube

Question

I'd like to take some little videos I made in Mathematica and put them on YouTube. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

I built a service connection for this and blogged about it here: Playing with YouTube from Mathematica

Here's an example of how this works.

Connect to YouTube

First install the paclet:

PacletInstall["ServiceConnection_YouTube",
  "Site"->
    "http://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/b3m2a1.paclets/PacletServer/"
  ]

_{(source: wolframcloud.com)}

Then connect:

$so = ServiceConnect["YouTube"]

_{(source: wolframcloud.com)}

Upload Video

anim =
  Export[
    FileNameJoin@{$TemporaryDirectory, "plot3d.flv"},
    Manipulate[
      Plot3D[Sin[n x y], 
        {x, 0, 3}, {y, 0, 3}, 
        ViewPoint -> Dynamic[{2, v, 2}], SphericalRegion -> True, Ticks -> None,
        PerformanceGoal->"Quality"
        ], 
      {n, 1, 4}, 
      {v, -2, 2}
      ]
    ];

upload = $so["UploadVideo", "part"->"id", "BodyContent"->anim];

Add Metadata

Because of how I built it you have to add the metadata after the upload. You do it like this:

$so["UpdateVideo", "id" -> upload["id"],
 "part" -> "snippet",
  "Title" -> "Mathematica Examples: Plot 3D",
 "CategoryID" -> "22"
 ]

Get an IFrame for Embedding

$so["EmbedIFrame", "id"->upload["id"]]

<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="360"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Quzcr4Vuq_Q?autoplay=0"
  frameborder="0"></iframe>

Here's the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=Quzcr4Vuq_Q