youtube-upload-mail-reminder

After Youtube has disabled their mail notification system, i've written this simple mail reminder script. The script uses the XML feed from a channel, to check if a new video has been uploaded.

Requirements on Server/Webspace:

• Webserver like Apache2, nginx eg. with PHP
• SQL database (with activated mysqli module)
• Mail Transfer Agent (like ssmtp or sendmail)
• Cron

Installation

• Create a SQL user and a database
• Import the SQL dump into database
• Write the SQL connection details in file config.php
• Upload all files to server
• Open index.php in Browser to see the interface, where you can add accounts and favorite channels for any account
• Call with a cron the file feed_parser.php may every 10 minutes (As example: php -f /var/www/yt-reminder/feed_parser.php > /dev/null 2>&1)

How to get the Channel ID?

• Login into your Youtube account
• Go with the mouse pointer to your subscriptions
• As example: The channel from Space (Official) has the URL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIR_LPmEQ9QHR0yB2lxgaxQ
• Copy the URL somewhere and cut the part after channel/

UCIR_LPmEQ9QHR0yB2lxgaxQ

This mix of signs and numbers is the channel ID, which is required to paste in textfield 'Channel ID'.

• It's also possible to import the whole subscription list. How this works, is described in the interface.

Take note: After adding a new channel and run the script (feed_parser.php), a mail with many content will send.

After that only new videos was displayed in the notification mail.

Last changes:

After Youtube doesn't furthermore export the subscription list as XML file, a function to import the subscription list from Youtube source code was added

To get the Channel ID easier, a function to search it with user name was added. (To use this function php-curl is required)

- A button to show last uploaded videos, in channel list added

If php-curl is installed at Server where the script is running, the video length was shown in notification mail

Some optical improvements in interface and mail conducted

Tags: Youtube, Upload, Mail, Reminder, Notification