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The /youtube/store Robot

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The /youtube/store Robot exports encoding results to YouTube.

Parameters

Name Type Default Description
credentials (required) String The authentication template credentials used for your YouTube account. You can generate them on the template credentials page.
rname (required) String The title of the video to be displayed on YouTube. Note that since the YouTube API requires titles to be within 80 characters, longer titles may be truncated.
description (required) String The description of the video to be displayed on YouTube.
category (required) String The category to which this video will be assigned. These are the valid values: "action/adventure", "anime/animation", "autos & vehicles", "classics", "comedy", "documentary", "drama", "education", "entertainment", "family", "film & animation", "foreign", "gaming", "horror", "howto & style", "movies", "music", "news & politics", "people & blogs", "pets & animals", "sci-Fi/fantasy", "science & technology", "short movies", "shorts", "shows", "sports", "thriller", "trailers", "travel & events", "videoblogging"
keywords (required) String Tags used to describe the video, separated by commas. These tags will also be displayed on YouTube.
visibility (required) String Defines the visibility of the uploaded video. This can be "public", "private", or "unlisted".
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Example use cases

Our /youtube/store Robot can be used in combination with other Robots, to create powerful workflows unique to your use case.
Here are a few example scenarios, and the required the Assembly Instructions to implement them.
You can also try demos of these examples right here, live on our website.

Export a video to YouTube

{
  "steps": {
    "video": {
      "use": ":original",
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v2.2.3",
      "result": true,
      "preset": "ipad-high"
    },
    "store": {
      "use": "video",
      "robot": "/youtube/store",
      "username": "YOUR_YOUTUBE_USERNAME",
      "password": "YOUR_YOUTUBE_PASSWORD",
      "title": "Some title",
      "description": "Some description",
      "category": "People",
      "keywords": "testing, example"
    }
  }
}

Related blog posts

Over the years we wrote the following posts about Our /youtube/store robot on our blog:

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