**Title:** [Project] Python bot to automatically upload YouTube Shorts from Google Drive **Body:
Making Automatic YouTube Videos with Python
python - How to schedule the uploading of videos to a YouTube Channel? - Stack Overflow
I automated my entire YouTube Post-Upload work using free tools.
Hey everyone! I'm a beginner learning Python, and I wanted to share a project I built recently.
created a Python automation bot that:
Connects to my Google Drive folder
Fetches video files (YouTube Shorts)
Uploads them to my YouTube channel
with a single command
This project helped me learn:
How to use Google Drive API and
YouTube Data API
OAuth 2.0 authentication
Automating repetitive workflows with Python
I'd really appreciate any feedback, ideas for improvements, or suggestions for best practices-especially around security and error handling.
I'm planning to upload the code to GitHub soon. If anyone is interested or has tips, please let me know!
Thanks for reading!
Hi everyone! Awhile back I had the idea to fully automate a YouTube channel to see how successful it could become. I'm not new to programming, but I certainly am to Python.
Here's a video I made explaining the process: https://youtu.be/ZmSb3LZDdf0
The way I started was to use those terrible Reddit TikTok/Reel/Shorts where people find a popular post and essentially just read it out with some funny comments. Luckily for me, people already use text-to-speech instead of their own voice, so my solution would fit right in.
To get content, I first used PRAW to access the Reddit API. I filter through that response and used pyttsv3 to generate an .mp3 of the voiceover. Then Selenium and Firefox made getting screenshots of each comment/post title really easy.
The only tricky part for me was learning how to use MoviePy to package everything up into a neatly-edited video. I explain this much better in the video above, but it basically consists of creating clip objects with each of the pictures and voiceovers, then connecting them in a CompositeVideoClip.
I'm curious how many others have tried this, as I'm sure the majority of popular stolen Reddit posts can't be all made by hand.
Edit for anyone who wanted source code: https://github.com/Shifty-The-Dev/RedditVideoGenerator