Publish video to YouTube API

Asynchronous API: publish a video to YouTube

Publish one video to the authenticated user's connected YouTube channel. Connect and verify the channel in the YouTube publishing service before calling this endpoint.

Endpoint: POST https://mxprocess.com/api/files/start-process
Authentication: Bearer JWT from POST /api/login_check
Accepted source: an uploaded video or HTTPS video URL.

Parameters

title — required, maximum 100 characters.
description — optional, maximum 5,000 characters; tags is optional, maximum 500 characters.
privacyStatus — private, unlisted or public.
defaultLanguage — optional language code, for example en or fr.
madeForKids — optional boolean. Additional optional fields are categoryId, license, publishAt, playlistId, locationDescription, latitude and longitude.

Start a publication

curl --location --request POST 'https://mxprocess.com/api/files/start-process' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN' \
--form 'actionName=PublishVideoToYouTube' \
--form 'file=@"/path/to/video.mp4"' \
--form 'parameters={"title":"My video title","description":"Optional description","privacyStatus":"private","defaultLanguage":"en","madeForKids":false,"categoryId":"22","license":"youtube"}' \
--form 'async=true'

To publish a remote file, omit file and send fileUrl=https://example.com/video.mp4. The video source is required. Use an ISO 8601 date-time for publishAt when scheduling publication.

Track the action

curl --location 'https://mxprocess.com/api/actions/get-action-infos/ACTION_ID' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN'

Review the returned action result and the publication in YouTube Studio, especially for public videos.

Connect a channel or publish a test video