#comments #youtube #utility #client-secret #channel

app youtube-first-comment

A simple program that creates a new comment on YouTube when a new video is published for the specified channel

4 releases

0.5.1 Oct 2, 2024
0.5.0 Oct 2, 2024
0.4.2 Sep 28, 2024
0.4.1 Sep 28, 2024
0.4.0 Sep 28, 2024

#532 in Command line utilities

Download history 461/week @ 2024-09-26 97/week @ 2024-10-03 3/week @ 2024-10-10

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MIT license

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Youtube First Comment

A simple program that creates a new comment on YouTube when a new video is published for the specified channel. Once the comment is created, the program exits.

Installation

cargo install youtube-first-comment

Usage

Usage: yfc [OPTIONS] --google-client-id <GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID> --google-client-secret <GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET> --comment <COMMENT> --channel-id <CHANNEL_ID>

Options:
      --google-client-id <GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>          Google client ID
      --google-client-secret <GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>  Google client secret
      --comment <COMMENT>                            The comment body
      --channel-id <CHANNEL_ID>                      YouTube channel ID
      --pool-interval <POOL_INTERVAL>                Pool interval (in seconds) [default: 60]
      --wait-limit <WAIT_LIMIT>                      Max wait time (in minutes) [optional, defaults to inf]
  -h, --help                                         Print help
yfc --comment "My first comment" \
    --channel-id "<CHANNEL_ID>" \
    --google-client-id "<GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>" \
    --google-client-secret "<GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>" \
    --pool-interval 10
    --wait-limit 300

You can find the channel id here and you will have to create an OAuth 2 Client ID on Google Cloud.

Dependencies

~15–26MB
~378K SLoC