A plug-in that would upload a video (which a user had attached to a Discourse posting) to my company’s YouTube channel

[Feronti]

I read this…

@SaraDev

If you are sharing many files or very large files regularly, we recommend that you use Google Drive, Dropbox or another cloud file sharing service. You can also use a streaming service like YouTube or SoundCloud to host your large media files. You can then get a link from there and paste it into your post. Insert the link on its own line, surrounded by empty lines, to display the file in a media player if supported, or a summary preview.

Presumably that works.

My use case

1. Because I don’t want my users to need to bother taking the extra steps required to upload a video to YouTube and then, copy and paste that YouTube link into their Discourse posting, and
2. because I want videos they attach to their Discourse posting to be uploaded to my company’s YouTube channel,

Functionality I would like

1. Assuming a user had attached a video file to a posting they had created on Discourse,
2. the file would be programmatically uploaded to my company’s YouTube channel (presumably using the YouTube Data API), and then
3. the video (which the user had attached to his Discourse posting) would be programmatically removed and replaced with a link to the YouTube file is displayed as a thumbnail.

Extra information 1

I realize that I could write a Python script that would upload videos located in /var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/default/ to my company’s YouTube account.

However, I’d rather not figure out how to remove the attachment from the user’s Discourse posting and concomitantly insert the link to the YouTube file into the user’s Discourse posting.

Extra information 2

In case you are curious, I’m imagining that some users will likely post videos which are larger than 10GB (ten gigabytes).

Extra information 3

I read…

@SaraDev

There is no file management interface provided in Discourse. To remove files, delete the posts that contain them or edit the posts to remove the attachment links. Orphaned files will be removed automatically after a 48 hour grace period.

Extra information 4

I also read…

@Arkshine

Preloading just metadata is not always respected by browsers, and sometimes the whole video will be downloaded. This switches to using a placeholder image for the video and only loads the video when the play button is clicked.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

There’s this theme component which I think does exactly what you need,
although I understand it’s currently unmaintained

Video Upload to YouTube and Vimeo using Theme Component

This new theme component enables video uploads from the Discourse composer to YouTube and Vimeo. For those already familiar with the plugin I developed recently, the same is now available in this Theme Component which can be added to any theme. This makes for a much easier installation and works in exactly the same way as the plugin. Features All forum members can upload videos to Vimeo or YouTube (admins can choose to enable either or both). Admins can control the view and embed privacy of th…

[Feronti]

Apparently it is broken and unmaintained.

@Canapin

@Octoberon

Is that still an issue that breaks Youtube API use?

I have contacted the author who has no time to spend on the component. Until further notice, the component is tagged as unmaintained.