To repost all your YouTube subscription videos with above-average popularity on Lemmy using Python, you’ll need to follow these steps:
- Get a YouTube API key[1].
- Use the YouTube API to fetch your subscription videos[2].
- Determine the popularity threshold (e.g., average views, likes, or comments).
- Filter the videos based on the popularity threshold.
- Use Pythorhead to interact with Lemmy and post the filtered videos[3].
Here’s a sample Python script to achieve this:
import requests
from pythorhead import Lemmy
# Replace with your YouTube API key and Lemmy credentials
YOUTUBE_API_KEY = 'your_youtube_api_key'
LEMMY_USERNAME = 'your_lemmy_username'
LEMMY_PASSWORD = 'your_lemmy_password'
# Fetch your YouTube subscription videos
def get_youtube_subscriptions(api_key):
# Replace with your YouTube channel ID
channel_id = 'your_youtube_channel_id'
url = f'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=snippet&channelId={channel_id}&maxResults=50&key={api_key}'
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
return data['items']
# Determine the popularity threshold
def get_popularity_threshold(videos):
# Calculate the average views, likes, or comments of the videos
# Replace this with your preferred popularity metric
pass
# Filter videos based on the popularity threshold
def filter_videos(videos, threshold):
# Filter the videos based on the popularity threshold
# Replace this with your preferred popularity metric
pass
# Post filtered videos on Lemmy using Pythorhead
def post_videos_on_lemmy(videos):
lemmy = Lemmy("https://lemmy.dbzer0.com")
lemmy.log_in(LEMMY_USERNAME, LEMMY_PASSWORD)
community_id = lemmy.discover_community("your_lemmy_community")
for video in videos:
title = video['snippet']['title']
url = f'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video["id"]}'
lemmy.post.create(community_id, title, url)
# Main script
if __name__ == '__main__':
videos = get_youtube_subscriptions(YOUTUBE_API_KEY)
threshold = get_popularity_threshold(videos)
filtered_videos = filter_videos(videos, threshold)
post_videos_on_lemmy(filtered_videos)
Replace the placeholders with your YouTube API key, Lemmy credentials, and YouTube channel ID. You’ll also need to implement the get_popularity_threshold
and filter_videos
functions based on your preferred popularity metric (e.g., views, likes, or comments).
Please note that this script is just a starting point, and you might need to modify it according to your specific requirements.
Citations:
[1] https://blog.hubspot.com/website/how-to-get-youtube-api-key
[2] https://gist.github.com/Yiannis128/4a9c016236edf41493176a59bb0a1be0
To make the script continuously check for new videos and repost them while keeping track of what it has already posted, you can use a database or a simple text file to store the IDs of the videos that have been posted. You can then run the script in a loop and add a delay using the
time.sleep()
function to check for new videos every few minutes or hours.Here’s how you can modify the script to achieve this:
First, define a function to check if a video has already been posted:
def is_already_posted(video_id): with open('posted_videos.txt', 'r') as file: posted_videos = file.read().splitlines() return video_id in posted_videos
Then, modify your video posting code to call this function and only post videos that haven’t been posted yet. Also, add the posted video’s ID to the text file:
for video in above_average_videos: video_id = video['id'] if not is_already_posted(video_id): video_title = video['snippet']['title'] video_url = f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}" lemmy.post.create(community_id, video_title, url=video_url) with open('posted_videos.txt', 'a') as file: file.write(video_id + '\n')
Finally, wrap your code in a loop and add a delay. This will cause the script to continuously check for new videos and repost them:
import time while True: # your code here... time.sleep(3600) # wait for 1 hour
This script will now run indefinitely, checking for new videos every hour and reposting videos that haven’t been posted yet.
Please replace
"username", "password"
,"YOUR_API_KEY"
,"YOUR_CHANNEL_ID"
, andN
with your actual Lemmy login details, YouTube API Key, YouTube Channel ID, and the number of recent videos to consider respectively. Also, make sure theposted_videos.txt
file exists in the same directory as your script.