youtube data API v3 video upload from server without opening the browser

Question

I am trying to upload videos to my account from my server daily where browser access is not there. I could do it on my desktop, where by running the below mentioned script o

Answer 1

First note that the authorization required by the API for uploading a video has nothing to do with the level of security of your server. You may read the doc OAuth 2.0 for Mobile & Desktop Apps for thorough info about the authorization flow on standalone computers.

The doc specifies steps 4 and step 5. By the initial OAuth flow, you get two tokens: a short-lived access token and a refresh token that produces access tokens on demand. Authentication without browser is not possible, but once having a refresh token, it can be traded programmatically for access tokens:

1. Initialization: obtain via browser authentication a refresh token;

2. Iterations: as many times as needed, query the API for an access token -- without any browser interaction! -- using the refresh token from (1), then proceed further with the call to the target API endpoint (again, without any browser interaction).

Note that the steps (1) and (2) may well be separated such that (1) is executed by a standalone (local) computer that stores the refresh token into a file; later, upon a secure transfer of that file on a different remote computer (e.g. a server that does not have a browser installed), execute (2) on that remote computer, repeatedly as needed (see Using OAuth 2.0 for server-side, standalone scripts.)