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

• Highly customizable
• Download and upload videos in parallel
• Keep metadata
• Transfer directly without any disk write

Requirements

• 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

Quick start

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

Environment variables

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.

Vimeo API

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'

YouTube API

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'

Config

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'