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 recording date (believe me, I tried!)

So consider this a work in progress that will slowly get better with time.

What does it do exactly?

• it retrieves the latest PeerTube video download URL from an instance
• if you register the app into your PeerTube instance (optional), you can retrieve the latest video source instead of the highest quality encoded video
• it creates a resumable upload into the target YouTube account
• it downloads/uploads the latest PeerTube video to YouTube without using a cache (stream-to-stream)

What doesn’t it do exactly?

• it doesn’t retrieve ALL the original PeerTube video properties like licences, languages, categories, etc… again: early prototype

Howtos

General usage

Once you fill your tootube.toml config file (see below), you can run tootube like this:

tootube --config tootube.toml --playlist playlist_1 "Things You Might Like"

You can turn on debug using env var RUST_LOG.

Obtain Authorization Token from Google

The complicated part:

• create an OAuth2.0 application with authorization for Youtube DATA Api v3 Upload and Youtube DATA Api v3 (generally referenced as ../auth/youtube.upload and ../auth/youtube)
• create a OAuth2.0 client with Desktop client

You’ll need:

• the client_id from your OAuth2.0 client
• the client_secret from you OAuth2.0 client

Create your tootube.toml config file:

[peertube]
base_url="https://p.nintendojo.fr"
# optional
# allows you to delete the original video source file once it’s uploaded to YouTube
delete_video_source_after_transfer=true # this option is only available if you have Administrator privileges
# optional
# everything below is given by the register command with --peertube option
[peertube.oauth2]
client_id="<YOUR CLIENT_ID>"
client_secret="<YOUR CLIENT_SECRET"
refresh_token="/var/lib/tootube/refresh_token" # refresh_token are single use only in PeerTube so we need to store it in a separate file

[youtube]
refresh_token="" # leave empty for now
client_id="<YOUR CLIENT_ID>"
client_secret="<YOUR CLIENT_SECRET>"

Then run:

tootube register --youtube --config <PATH TO YOUR TOOTUBE.TOML FILE>

You’ll be then prompted with all the necessary information to register tootube. You’ll end with a refresh_token that you can now paste inside your tootube configuration.

If you wish to register tootube on PeerTube, you can do so by using:

tootube register --peertube --config <PATH TO YOUR TOOTUBE.TOML FILE>

It will require your username/password (beware that 2FA is not supported for this feature as of now) and generate a first refresh_token that you will put inside the aformentioned file:

echo -n '<REFRESH_TOKEN>' > /var/lib/tootube/refresh_token