This is the second part of the series where I describe automating the scheduling of each Sunday’s live streams on my church’s YouTube channel. Part 1 – Parsing the Canadian Catholic liturgical calendar Part 2 – Creating YouTube live streams programmatically Part 2 – Creating YouTube live streams programmatically Authentication with the YouTube Data API from Python This is the second project for which I’ve had to go through and figure this out, so I wanted to write this down. There are a couple oddities with the YouTube Data API:
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Side Project: YouTube Live Stream Scheduler – Part 1
One great thing about computers is that they can be programmed to do things that are repetitive and boring. I try to look around in my life to see what things I can get a computer to do for me, so that I don’t have to do it myself. Today’s case is scheduling weekly YouTube live streams for my church. Every week someone’s got to schedule the live streams for the upcoming weekend. They look like this: So you might be thinking, this seems pretty trivial, like it’s just a few clicks to schedule this in YouTube. It can’t take Continue Reading
Side Project: Grouse Mountain Skyride Availability
I haven’t had time to work on many side projects lately. I think I generally am most effective at programming when I have a long stretch of uninterrupted time (on the order of a few hours or more at a time), and I have found the same at work. These long stretches of time are difficult to find these days. However this was one opportunity that came up this week. Many of my side projects are born from automating repetitive manual tasks, and this was one of those.