Youtube uploader configuration

[czimm74]

Ok, tried a fresh run of setting up the YouTube side. I get up to where in the indi-allsky configuration where you click Authorize, but all that comes up is:

Bad Request
Youtube uploading not enabled

I don't know what the error would be though, I have been doing this all through the allsky server as well.

[aaronwmorris]

In that case, you just need to enable YouTube uploading first and click "Save" first then try the Authorize. I may remove that requirement.

Edit: Merged #1107 to remove the check

[czimm74]

I got further that time, ran into a redirect error. Figured out I had to add '<domain.com>/indi-allsky/youtube/oauth2callback' onto the URI redirect. Trying an upload now.

I would add something though to indicate it is being uploaded, other than loading up youtube and see if anything is happening.

[aaronwmorris]

I will think about how to track the status of the upload. The upload is completely asynchronous from the web interface, so it is difficult to track the status in real-time.

[czimm74]

Not as much tracking, but just to let you know it is started and to check your youtube account for status.

I have tried it twice, but on the youtube side I am getting my videos locked and marked private.

Have you noticed that to uploads?

[aaronwmorris]

When I was investigating the original implementation, I did run across a note somewhere that said uploads from "unverified" services could only be uploaded as "private". However, when I was testing, I was able to successfully upload videos as Private, Public, and Unlisted with no problems. Your channel has more subscribers than mine, so that is not the reason. I do subscribe to Youtube Premium, but that really has nothing to do with the channels.

Did you set any different tags for your uploads? Did you set your app in GCP as in Production or did you leave it in Testing?

[czimm74]

I had it set to testing before. Changed it to production, I still get the same result where the video is marked private. Didn't make any changes to the youtube config screen either.

[aaronwmorris]

Have you tried just uploading as Private?

[aaronwmorris]

This looks to be a common problem with videos uploaded by API.

tokland/youtube-upload#306

[caphector]

When I set up my own private youtube upload thing I needed to have YouTube "review my API client"; once this was done I was able to upload videos. I only did basic verification so I have to refresh my key a lot. :-/

[evripidis]

@aaronwmorris Would it be possible to have some more details for the redirect URL?

I think I've done the fake part, correct, let's say https://allskycam.com . But when I try this URL locally, it converts to https://allskycam.com/indi-allsky/

When I try to execute the Authorization, I always get Access blocked: This app’s request is invalid - Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch

[aaronwmorris]

If indi-allsky is running at the /indi-allsky/ context, then that would be correct. The full redirect URL would be something like https://allskycam.com/indi-allsky/youtube/oauth2callback. The redirect URI must also be configured with the web application config when you download the JSON credentials file. When you inspect the JSON, it should contain the correct redirect URI.

The redirect URI is the URL youtube uses to send the authorization credentials back to indi-allsky included as GET parameters.

[evripidis]

Here is the exact point that confuses me: In fact we have 3 points to config the URL:

1. hosts
2. google
3. allsky config

Lets say that I wanna use the fakeallsky.com

1. hosts ---> 127.0.0.1 fakeallsky.com

2. google

3. indi

[aaronwmorris]

I like the fakeallsky.com, I borrowed that for the instructions.

The Redirect URI needs to be the full path to the redirect page: https://fakeallsky.com/indi-allsky/youtube/oauth2callback You will have to generate new credentials.

I have updated the instructions with this as well.

[evripidis]

Yeap, now it works.

But unfortunately the Private issue came up so...

PS. Just for the record the "Auto Upload" function does not upload previous videos.

[aaronwmorris]

Yeah, auto-upload will upload videos as they are generated.

The locked as private issue is irritating. I suspect I did not have the problem because I had an existing GCP account due to working on the Object Storage integration with GCP. I think Google prevents new accounts from auto uploading videos to prevent spam.

[Joebus1]

I've been stuck on this for a bit. I'm sure it's simple and I'm just overlooking something dumb.

I'm up to the part where I've downloaded the .json file to my windows download folder. When I enter the path and click "Save" there are path errors

Where do I put the .json file and how should the path be formatted? I tried just the folder path, folder\name, and folder\name.json. I also tried putting the file into the rpi.

The entry I put in the host file on windows: 192.168.2.111 fakeallsky.com When I put https://fakeallsky.com into my browser it brings me to the ip address.

The last line in the .json file: "redirect_uris":["https://fakeallsky.com/indi-allsky/youtube/oauth2callback"]}}

Google page:

If I click "Authorize" on the configure page I get Bad Request Client secret not configured

[aaronwmorris]

While you setup the google authorization, you have to navigate to indi-allsky using a valid (but fake) FQDN (like something ending in .com). You have to setup a hosts file entry on your desktop client to navigate to indi-allsky. Once the authorization is finished, you can go back to using the private IP.

This is why the example uses https://fakeallsky.com/indi-allsky/. fakeallsky.com is the hosts entry you need to setup.

[Joebus1]

Not sure what I did but it's all working now. Thanks again I appreciate it.

[aaronwmorris]

Fantastic!

[Joebus1]

Solved on my end. Are you able to mark as solved?

[aaronwmorris]

We can just leave it as is.

[crfrancis]

I'm still in the woods. I've spent the best part of day trying to get this to work.

hint: I think you should mention inthe wiki that the secrets file has to be on the R-Pi, not the machine with the web browser. It took me many hours to work that one out.

Secondly -- in the Config>YouTube tab the box "Detected direct URI" remains blank, even though authorisation was apparently OK -- the slider is moved to "Credentials authorised".

It seems i can upload movies -- the two that I tried have the red "Upload to YouTube" replaced by a green "YouTube Uploaded"

BUT, I can't find these uploads. I entered what I imagine is my YouTube account as a tester (this process is rather opaque -- I'm not a regular YouTube user). It seems that it has to be the e-mail that i used to create the account -- it's also the e-mail associated with my gmail account. But in YouTube there's some other arbitrary identifier: @ then my first name, then a random series of alphanumerics.

When I look at this account there is no upload at all -- no movie that I've created.

What is going on -- how can I see them myself, and how can I allow anybody to see them ?

Sorry for being a YouTube neophyte, but it's not my preferred medium

[crfrancis]

Thanks for the very fast response. Unfortunately there's nothing there. See the screenshot. I tried signing out an back in, but no change. Pretty frustrating really. I blame YouTube for being too complex.

[aaronwmorris]

I would have to see the logs. The capture process has to be running for uploads to succeed. Clicking the upload button only submits a task to the internal queue to initiate the upload (which is done by the capture process).

[crfrancis]

I'm pretty sure it is running -- I only had a green "uploaded" button after I re-enabled it, and it's running now. I'd upload the log(s) if I knew where they are ?

[aaronwmorris]

You can create an archive of your logs with this. Share it with google drive or something like that.

tar -C /var/log/indi-allsky -cvf - . | gzip -9c > "logs_backup_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).tgz"

[crfrancis]

OK here it is on DropBox :
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nfxbj9r88dti91f0o3ftn/logs_backup_20250121_215017.tgz?rlkey=tnri8ien2lvp41hw1n1efnra5&dl=0

[aaronwmorris]

This may seem silly, but I think you have not enabled youtube uploads. There is a checkbox at the top of the Youtube config tab. It has to be switched "on" for the uploads to happen.

[crfrancis]

Good point and I didn't have it set right at the beginning. But it was set when I got the green button, and has been since. Also, for good measure, the Auto-Upload Timelapse's switch is on too, since the same time I flicked the other.

For good measure I could try uploading another one.

[aaronwmorris]

Nevermind what I said before. Looking at your logs, I see there are successful uploads to youtube.

They appear to be uploading somewhere. Are you sure you authorized the correct google account?

[crfrancis]

No !!! I know practically nothing about YouTube. I do have an account (by virtue of the fact we have a Google account) but I've never really tried using YouTube.