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<?php

define('DEBUG','FALSE');

function http_post_form($url, $vars) {
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return to string instead of spewing to output
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);  // follow location header, not sure if this is needed.
  // I like chocolate chip
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");

  // Expect: 100-continue doesn't work properly with lightTPD
  // This fix by zorro http://groups.google.com/group/php.general/msg/aaea439233ac709b
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:')); 

  // Debugging
  if(defined(DEBUG) && DEBUG == TRUE) {
    $mydebug = f-open('debug.txt','a');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, $mydebug);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); 
  }

  // Set method post
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars);

  $file_contents = curl_e xec($ch);

  if(defined(DEBUG) && DEBUG == TRUE) {
    $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    f write($mydebug,"/nHttp Code: $httpCode/n");
  }

  curl_close($ch);

  if(defined(DEBUG) && DEBUG == TRUE) {
    f close($mydebug);
  }

  return $file_contents;
}

?>

$user = 'user';
$password = 'password';

/* don't touch these, we are just setting up our ugly strings with our information to pass onto our super function above. */
$param = 'current_form=loginForm&next=/my_videos_upload%3F&username='.$user.'&password='.$password.'&action_login=Log+In';
$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/signup?next=/my_videos_upload%3F';

http_post_form($url, $param);

/* Change me ! */
$title = stripslashes($_POST['title']);
$description = stripslashes($_POST['description']);
$keywords = 'insert your keywords here';
$file = '../uploads/' . $_POST['file'];
$privacy = 'private';
$category = '10';
$language = 'EN'

/* stop changing */
$post_vars = array();
$post_vars['field_privacy'] = $privacy;
$post_vars['field_myvideo_keywords'] = $keywords;
$post_vars['field_myvideo_title'] = $title;
$post_vars['field_myvideo_descr'] = $description;
$post_vars['field_myvideo_categories'] = $category;
$post_vars['language'] = $language;
$post_vars['field_uploadfile'] = "@$file";
$post_vars['field_command'] = 'myvideo_submit';
$post_vars['submit'] = 'Upload%20Video';

/* See note below about YouTube URL's */
$url = 'http://v##.youtube.com/my_videos_post';

$return = http_post_form($url, $post_vars);

20 Responses to “YouTube Uploader”

1. Alix Axel Says:
   June 23rd, 2007 at

   Great work, way to go! ;)

   Congrats on your scripting!

2. Fast Stumble Exchange Says:
   June 25th, 2007 at

   Very nifty script, but normally you don’t want “private” do you?

3. Llynix Says:
   June 25th, 2007 at

   It can be changed easily to ‘public’. Your right though, generally there is no reason. Private just removes the shared code. The file can still be shared by us in the know in fact. When I first started out this endevour I knew nothing about YouTube and thought it would enable more protection.

   Thanks for adding another thing to my ever-growing to-do list. :)

4. Orlando Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at

   Hi, it’s possible to add a upload progress bar?

5. Llynix Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at

   Possible… sure..

   However PHP has some problems with file upload. I was actually planning to do a tutorial on it but ended up running in circles. Perl does it fairly well, but the source code that’s available is fairly rough.

   Remember with this script you’ve already uploaded the file to your server, so I’ve found that file transfer time is quite low even with large video files. I guess those who are unfortunate to have a decent webhost might run into problems, but it should be quite speedy.

6. Tony Cai Says:
   August 24th, 2007 at

   I’m new to this, I’ve been Googling around to find a Youtube like uploading script for my site and I ran into this. What is this exactly? Please give me the simplified version of what this does? I know a bit of PHP.

   Thanks
   Tony Cai
   http://tonycai.com

7. Tony Cai Says:
   August 24th, 2007 at

   Okay I understand it a little more now.

   So the PHP code above is the backend of what needs to be used with a template to get videos uploaded onto youtube without having to be on youtube. This is GENIUS!

   Does someone have an example of a template they can provide me?

   Thanks a lot!
   Tony Cai

8. smaxor Says:
   August 24th, 2007 at

   Hi great post I really enjoyed it. However I’m having occasionaly ( works about 50% ) issues when I try to upload. I’m get an error back that says the file is to large, please make it smaller. Unfortunately I wish it was to big that would be an easy solve. It uploads fine uploading the same video file with the browser. Do you have any ideas why this might be happening? The video is a standard 320×240, 30fps. I’m totally baffled on this one and it very sporadic.

9. Llynix Says:
   August 24th, 2007 at

   Wow, woke up this morning with comments and IM’s all about my little script here. I’ll try my best to help.

   @Tony

   The script is lacking a simple front end. I ended up creating a simple form page to fill in the needed information. Then, because my files were already uploaded to the server, it uses the information and the file to upload. Depending on how you’ll use the script you’ll want to modify the information you put in or the info that is hard coded. When I have time over this weekend I’ll see if I can’t revamp this article to include a simple form front end which people can work off of.

   @Smaxor

   Perhaps the occasional problem is the server you are uploading to? For my script I just picked a number and went with it, but I do vaguely recall having problems with the first number I randomly picked. Sporadic problems are so darn hard to debug. Feel free to send/post your code sample and I’ll be happy to take a look.

10. Tony Cai Says:
    August 25th, 2007 at

    Llynix,

    Awesome man! I can’t wait! I will try to contact you via IM again.

    Thanks in advance!
    Tony Cai

11. xqdqsd Says:
    August 28th, 2007 at

    nice script, works fine. been adding some parser to the returned webpage to get the youtube link however (i think its what most people want)

12. barakr Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at

    does it work under PHP5 ?
    someone told me curl might have problems with cookiejar under PHP5…

    and i’m getting – ‘failed creating formpost data’ error.
    thanks

    b.

13. Mike Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at

    Does anyone have just a downloadable solution??
    aka: very simple simple front end / a back end..

14. brien Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at

    hey, very nice. YouTube recently switched their server names to http://lax-vXX.lax.youtube.com/my_videos_post (e.g. XX=63, http://lax-v63.lax.youtube.com/my_videos_post) Everything else remains the same.

    We at k-sketch.org added some return values to your script, so we could detect a bad login and the movie permalink … k-sketch.org/temp/ytup.zip

15. Andrew Says:
    November 11th, 2007 at

    Hey this is awesome, especially appreciate Brien’s update. Thanks so much.

16. RRC Says:
    May 27th, 2008 at

    How can i know the video ID after uploading?

17. Lucian Says:
    November 28th, 2008 at

    Hi,

    I have tried this script but it does not upload any file on my youtube account. So I realy don’t know what the problem is but it doesn’t work

18. xx Says:
    February 18th, 2009 at

    it is an outdated script :) need to be modified

19. IndiaGuy Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at

    Yes,
    It’s not working now.
    Youtube has changes names of almost all hidden html fields.
    I’m working to create a new working script.

    I’ll post it once it’s successful.

    IndiaGuy

20. Liudvikas Says:
    April 26th, 2009 at

    Use Zend Gdata and Youtube API.