diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 447fde7..bfbe526 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,30 @@ +# What is it? + +This program takes the very last video published on a PeerTube instance and pushes it to a corresponding YouTube channel. + +# What the status of this? + +This is an early prototype not really suited for production purposes for now: +* it still relies way too much on pre-determined value to upload the video to YouTube +* it cannot determine the playlists it needs to put them in +* it cannot determine the recording date (believe me, I tried!) +* there are still a lot of static values that I would rather not have static (like the cache directory…) +* it is 100% sync, meaning it’s clearly not optimal for now and probably won’t be for the next releases + +So consider this a work in progress that will slowly get better with time + +# What does it do exactly? + +* it downloads the latest PeerTube video from an instance +* stores it in cache directory +* uploads it to YouTube + +# What doesn’t it do exactly? + +* it cannot register the original key (see below) +* it relies on a local cache despite the fact that it might well be possible to just download from PT/upload to YT at the same time (I don’t see why not in fact) +* it doesn’t retrieve ALL the original PeerTube video properties like licences, languages, categories, etc… again: early prototype + # Obtain Authorization Token from Google That the complicated part: