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Upload videos to YouTube from context menu

date April 9, 2016 author Kevin

In this tutorial we’ll look at uploading videos to YouTube from the Ubuntu context menu. This will make adding any video to YouTube a right-click away.

For this script you’ll need xclip, youtube-upload and Nautilus Actions.

Screenshot from 2016-04-09 17-31-14 — First we create a new Action titled “Upload to Youtube”

Screenshot from 2016-04-09 17-31-36 — Next we point our action to the script we want it to run. In this case its a shell script called “youtube-upload.sh”

Screenshot from 2016-04-09 17-31-47 — Finally we tell the Action to run in a terminal so we can enter some basic information about our video before uploading.

Here is the script we are using to call youtube-upload

https://gist.github.com/kevinchappell/ee074e114b59b1003e929077a0955a49

See it in action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQbhiSMLyE