A small python 3.x script to post youtube-videos from a youtube-chanel on a mastodon account. It is based on https://github.com/cquest/tootbot by Christian Quest
The script only needs mastodon login/pass to post toots.
It gets the videos from RSS available at https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANELIDOFDESIRE (where CHANELIDOFDESIRE is the ID of the youtube-chanel you want to follow).
A sqlite database is used to keep track of tweets than have been tooted.
The script is simply called by a cron job and can run on any server (does not have to be on the mastodon instance server).
# clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/produnis/youtoot.git
cd youtoot
# install required python modules
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 youtoot.py <youtube_chanel_id> <mastodon_account> <mastodon_password> <mastodon_domain>
Example:
python3 youtoot.py UCT0hbLDa-unWsnZ6Rjzkfug foobar@botsin.space **password** botsin.space
It's up to you to add this in your crontab :)
See this bot in action here: