[Feature request] automatic video scheduling for the "youtube" provider

[BenjiThatFoxGuy]

Please Describe The Problem To Be Solved The Twitch affiliate agreement includes a timed exclusivity period (Affiliate agreement §2.2), which requires VODs and livestreams to be available only on Twitch for at least 24hrs. This means even with a project like autovod, there's still some manual labor - mainly with scheduling the VODs.

(Optional): Suggest A Solution youtubeuploader supports specifying when to schedule a video to (for that to work, the visibility has to be set to private). if autovod incorporated that in some way, it would make lives of streamers who maintain a VOD channel so much easier.

• Details of the technical implementation If autovod supported automatically taking system time say, at the beginning and add 24hrs (or user specified time) and supply youtubeuploader with that information - this could help automate that compliance. I can't find the specific CLI arg, but I know that if using the metaJSON argument, it's specified in the json as publishAt If that's only supported while using the JSON file based metadata, I assume autovod would need to spit out a temporary JSON file somewhere and point youtubeuploader to it.
• Tradeoffs made in design decisions Depending on the complexity of the code or any issues this might cause, removing the user specified offset feature and keeping it 24hrs only could be a thing that could be done as a last resort. Not sure how OS specific would be pulling the local system timezone to be able to supply youtubeuploader with the correct timestamp, but if it proves troublesome it could be beneficial to just make the timezone user specifiable (and assume the user specified the timezone in accordance to how the system keeps the time).
• Caveats and considerations for the future None at the moment. EDIT: I have remembered autovod starts piping Streamlink into youtubeuploader at stream start, which means it's probably passing the metadata to YouTube at the very beginning. I have reflected the implications of this by rephrasing a bit.

[jenslys]

This should be fairly easy to add using the publishAt I just have to think about a queue system for this to work efficiently.

Fetching current date and date in 2 days with the same format:

current_date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')
timestamp=$(date -j -f '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z' "$current_date" +%s)
new_timestamp=$((timestamp + 2 * 24 * 60 * 60))
new_date=$(date -j -f '%s' "$new_timestamp" +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')

[jenslys]

It seems Twitch has removed section 2.2 regarding the ability to re-upload the VOD. and I cant find any other reference to restrictions regarding this.

Is this still a wanted feature?

[BenjiThatFoxGuy]

I guess not, because it was meant as a solution after all :) Hopefully they don't change it back haha