A tool for automatic video creation and uploading on YouTube.

These instructions will show you how this tool works and how to have the project up and running on your local machine.

FFmpeg (version used to build this tool: 4.1.1-1)

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg   # on Debian based systems
$ sudo yum install ffmpeg       # on Red Hat based systems

Python libraries:

$ sudo pip3 install google_images_download      # 2.5.0
$ sudo pip3 install wikipedia                   # 1.4.0
$ sudo pip3 install nltk                        # 3.4
$ sudo pip3 install watson_developer_cloud      # 2.8.0
$ sudo pip3 install google-api-python-client    # 1.7.8
$ sudo pip3 install oauth2client                # 4.1.3

You will need to use the NLTK Downloader to obtain punkt:

$ python3
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download("punkt")
>>> exit()

$ git clone https://github.com/crhenr/youtube-video-maker.git

You will need to put your Watson API keys in the searchrobot.py file:

...
iam_apikey = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
url = "YOUR_URL_HERE"
...

And your Google API keys in the clients_secret.json file:

...
"client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE",
"client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE",
...

After completing all the settings, just run the main file:

$ cd youtube-video-maker/src
$ python3 yvm.py

The program behaves as follows:

• 1. Get the Wikipedia search term and the prefix;
• 2. Get the first sentences from the Wikipedia summary which corresponds to the search term;
• 3. Remove unnecessary information;
• 4. Send each sentence to Watson to get the corresponding keywords;
• 5. Download some images from Google Images based on the keywords;
• 6. Rename and convert the images to JPG;
• 7. Make the video, add the sentences as subtitles and add a music;
• 8. Send the final video to YouTube with title, description and tags.

NOTE: All the files (images, videos and subtitles) are saved in the user's folder, in a directory with the search term name.

Example: final_video.mp4

• Get better images;
• Correct the error that causes the fifth subtitle to be skipped.

Project inspired by video-maker, by filipedeschamps

Music extracted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeV4u5Y-3ac

Original video upload code: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video?hl=en