Vimeo to YouTube

A Node.js CLI to easily transfer your videos from Vimeo to YouTube

Download all your videos from Vimeo with the push of a button, and upload them to YouTube with all their metadata.

Features

Node.js >= 9
Vimeo API keys: you must first create an application and create an access token
YouTube API keys: follow the steps of the section "Step 1: Turn on the YouTube Data API" and download your API keys
A good Internet connection

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/hichamelkaddioui/vimeo-to-youtube

Install dependencies:

npm install

Create a .env file based on .env.dist, fill it with your API keys and run

npm start

You can set these variables either by editing the .env file or by setting them before running the CLI. E.g.:

LOGGER_LEVEL=debug npm start

Data folder ($DATA_FOLDER) and config folder ($CONFIG_FOLDER) are resolved with platform-folders.

Key	Type	Description	Default
`VIMEO_CLIENT_ID`	`String`	The Client ID of your Vimeo application	Required
`VIMEO_CLIENT_SECRET`	`String`	The Client Secret of your Vimeo application	Required
`VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN`	`String`	A generated Access Token	Required
`VIMEO_VIDEOS_PER_PAGE`	`Number`	The number of videos to fetch per request. More info here	`100`
`VIMEO_VIDEOS_FIELDS`	`String`	The fields of the video object to filter from the Vimeo API. More info here	`'resource_key,name,description,tags,files,download,privacy,categories'`

Key	Type	Description	Default
`YOUTUBE_CLIENT_ID`	`String`	The Client ID of your YouTube application	Required
`YOUTUBE_PROJECT_ID`	`String`	The Project ID of your YouTube application	Required
`YOUTUBE_AUTH_URI`	`String`	OAuth2 auth URI	`'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth'`
`YOUTUBE_TOKEN_URI`	`String`	OAuth2 token URI	`'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/token'`
`YOUTUBE_AUTH_PROVIDER_X509_CERT_URL`	`String`	OAuth2 certs URL	`'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs'`
`YOUTUBE_CLIENT_SECRET`	`String`	The Client Secret of your YouTube application	Required
`YOUTUBE_REDIRECT_URIS`	`String`	OAuth2 redirect URIs	`'urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob,http://localhost'`
`YOUTUBE_TOKEN_PATH`	`String`	The path of the file in which to store the access token	`'$CONFIG_FOLDER/vimeo-to-youtube/youtube-oauth2-credentials.json'`

Key	Type	Description	Default
`DB_FILENAME`	`String`	The path of the local database file	`'$DATA_FOLDER/vimeo-to-youtube/db/videos.db'`
`DOWNLOAD_DEST`	`String`	The path of the folder into which store the downloaded video files	`'$DATA_FOLDER/vimeo-to-youtube/files'`
`DOWNLOAD_PARALLEL_VIDEOS`	`Number`	The number of videos to download in parallel	`3`
`UPLOAD_PARALLEL_VIDEOS`	`Number`	The number of videos to upload in parallel	`10`
`LOGGER_LEVEL`	`String`	The level of log to display	`'info'`