I was looking through the Google API docs and could not find anything on uploading YouTube shorts. Does anybody know of a way?
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As of today, it seems that "Shorts" are just plain Youtube videos, because really any Youtube video can be regarded as a "Shorts" video by appending its id to the shorts route, even if it's a 24 hours long video, for example this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4dhIvyskkB0.
So just upload a video.
However, it seems that the question should better be: What could raise the chances that a Youtube video be "promoted" by Youtube as a "Shorts" video?
To which the answer is: Follow Youtube's guidelines, provided here:
- Entitle your video with the
#shortshashtag (snippet.title). - Add the
#shortshashtag to your description (snippet.description). - Make it shorter than 60 seconds.
- The
videosendpoint request body documentation is here.
Maybe once "Shorts" get out of beta, things would get more strict.
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