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README.md

YouTubeDrive Banner

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YouTubeDrive is a Wolfram Language (aka Mathematica) package that
encodes/decodes arbitrary data to/from simple RGB videos which are
automatically uploaded to/downloaded from YouTube. Since YouTube
imposes no limits on the total number or length of videos users can
upload, this provides an effectively infinite but extremely slow form
of file storage.

YouTubeDrive depends externally on FFmpeg, youtube-upload, and
youtube-dl. These programs must be downloaded and installed
separately, and prior to first use, YouTubeDrive must be configured
with their install locations. See below for details.

YouTubeDrive is a silly proof-of-concept, and I do not endorse its
high-volume use.

 Usage Example

Usage Example

NOTE: A short time needs to pass between calls to YouTubeUpload and
YouTubeRetrieve for YouTube to process the uploaded video. I find
that 5-10 minutes suffices for small (less than 10MB) file uploads.

The video YouTubeDrive produces in this example can be viewed at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm1AeYmbNU.

 Installation

  * Install FFmpeg, youtube-upload, and youtube-dl as your operating
    system dictates.

  * Find an arbitrary test video, say test.mp4, and run
    youtube-upload --title="Test Video" test.mp4. Follow the
    displayed instructions to create an OAuth token for your YouTube
    account. This will be the YouTube account used for all
    YouTubeDrive uploads.

  * Download and open YouTubeDrive.wl from this repository.

  * In lines 75-77, enter the install locations of the FFmpeg,
    youtube-upload, and youtube-dl executables. Make sure to use
    proper string escape sequences (in particular, backslashes \ need
    to be escaped as double-backslashes \\ in Windows paths).

    75 | FFmpegExecutablePath = "FFMPEG_PATH_HERE";
    76 | YouTubeUploadExecutablePath = "YOUTUBE-UPLOAD_PATH_HERE";
    77 | YouTubeDLExecutablePath = "YOUTUBE-DL_PATH_HERE";

    For example, I use the following install locations on my system
    (Windows 10):

    75 | FFmpegExecutablePath = "C:\\Games\\MiscExes\\ffmpeg.exe";
    76 | YouTubeUploadExecutablePath = Sequence["python",
    77 |   "C:\\Users\\dzhan\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\" <>
    78 |       "Python\\Python35\\Scripts\\youtube-upload.py"];
    79 | YouTubeDLExecutablePath = "C:\\Games\\MiscExes\\youtube-dl.exe";

    Note the use of Sequence[] to call python youtube-upload.py
    above.

  * After making the above edits, open YouTubeDrive.wl with
    Mathematica. Then, open the File - Install... dialog, and select
    the following options:

      + Type of Item to Install: Package
      + Source: YouTubeDrive.wl
      + Install Name: YouTubeDrive (no .wl suffix)

    Choose installation for all users or the current user only,
    according to your preference, and click OK.

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