node-youtube-resumable-upload

Upload large videos to youtube via Google's 'resumable upload' API: follows https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/using_resumable_upload_protocol

Benchmarked with an 800mb video - this module bypasses the filesize restrictions on node's fs.readFileSync() (used by the official googleapis node client for uploading) by using fs.createReadStream() and then piping the stream to Youtube's servers.

How to Use

Requires OAuth2 tokens from google - packages such as googleapis (the official nodejs client), Passport and google-auth-cli can be used.

Install with npm install node-youtube-resumable-upload

The module returns the video metadata that Google responds with on a successful upload.

Look at test/test.js for a use-case example, but this is the gist of it:

var ResumableUpload = require('node-youtube-resumable-upload');
var resumableUpload = new ResumableUpload(); //create new ResumableUpload
  resumableUpload.tokens = tokens; //Google OAuth2 tokens
  resumableUpload.filepath = './video.mp4';
  resumableUpload.metadata = metadata; //include the snippet and status for the video
  resumableUpload.monitor = true;
  resumableUpload.retry = 3; // Maximum retries when upload failed.
  resumableUpload.initUpload(function(result) {
    //success handler
    console.log(result);
  }, function(error){
    
    //error handler
    
    console.log(result);
  });