Add exporting to other platforms

[chand1012]

I did some digging into how we could get publishing to other platforms (other than YouTube) working well, and here is what I found.

Fully Automated Posting

• TikTok offers a developer program where you can publish TikToks via their API. Since this is a newer system there aren't any Python or Javascript wrappers available (though that may be a good open source project). I already submitted a request for us to be given approval to publish videos via authenticated users.
• Twitter has excellent developer support. There is an approval process, but they say yes 99% of the time. See here. There also exists some really good API wrappers, see Tweepy and the official Javascript API.
• Facebook offers API publishing, but only to a public Facebook page (not a personal page).

Some Intervention Required

• Snapchat has what they call SnapKit Creator which allows sharing of videos and images, but only as a button that redirects them to the app with the media in tow. They have an example for the web here. This would require our users to hit the button on the browser on their phones (or on some sort of app) to publish the content to Snapchat. They do offer a way to share via Desktop, but only as a link (not as a proper post), and it still requires the user to open Snapchat on their phones, scan a code, then manually post it via the app.
• Instagram has no way to publish via an API. They did recently debut a business only API but this isn't available for creators or personal accounts yet, only corporate accounts. The only other option is a similar solution to Snapchat, where we have a mobile site/app with a "Share to Instagram" button. See here.

I understand that this is not on our priority list right now, but I was researching this anyways for a personal project, figured I'd post my findings here for future reference.

[gatesyp]

q below: (take ur time in answering)

do you know the difference between a public and personal page? i wonder if most streamers would have a public page vs personal page

[chand1012]

According to Ben, we probably shouldn't even bother with Facebook until the end. It makes up less than 5% of most content creators' revenue. He did say if they do have a page, it is a public page all the time.