How to upload a video to youtube using javascript?

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I want to upload a video to youtube using javascript. Currently， I can login and get the list of the videos, but I do not know how to write the snippet to upload files.

I used google js api Link1 and youtube v3 api Link2

var requestOptions = {
playlistId: playlistId,
part: 'snippet',
myRating:'like',
maxResults: 1
};
var request = gapi.client.youtube.videos.insert(requestOptions);

I am using the above code to get video list items, but not sure how to continue to upload a video.

Is this a duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/14683240/… ? — David Cary
– David Cary, Commented Mar 24, 2015 at 0:07

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:22:14Z

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[Edit] CORS is supported now in v3 and here's latest answer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/19691307/1973552

Right now there is a problem on v3 due to CORS. For now you can use v2 if Javascript implementation is urgent. Here's an example.

On the other hand, we are hoping to get v3 fixed really soon for Javascript uploads and that will be the long term solution.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:22

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answered Jun 4, 2013 at 15:34

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user504909 Over a year ago

can you tell me what is the problem of v3. I find firefox works on CORS as XMLHttpRequest and for IE, it has XDomainRequest object. So, I think it should not be a problem.

Ibrahim Ulukaya Over a year ago

It's on the YouTube side. code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4050

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