Easily upload a video from a url to Youtube

Madhu Sudhan Subedi
savetodrive
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3 min readMay 23, 2018
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You may already know how we upload video to youtube. For instance, if you need to upload web video, you simply download the files to your computer and then upload them to youtube.

This article originally published on http://web.savetodrive.net/posts/2018-05-23/upload-file-from-url-to-youtube/ at May 13, 2018

Downloading web video and uploading them again to youtube takes a lot of our precious time as well as consume disk space on your computer. And if you don’t have a fast internet connection we understand how frustrating it can get.

In this article, you will get an idea on how easily web files can be uploaded to youtube using direct link and Save To Drive making your life easier.

tl;dr: Visit Save To Drive by clicking this link, authenticate your youtube by clicking the youtube icon. Add your web file link url to the input field over there. Select Youtube service. Check ‘I m not robot’ Youtube and click the orange upload button. Then you’re done

Steps for uploading web files

  1. Visit the https://savetodrive.net , we are uploading web files using Save To Drive.
  2. You need to authenticate your Youtube account to upload files to your google drive, So just click the Youtube icon and complete authentication process. And you’ll see the green check mark in Youtube icon like this.

3. Copy the Link of the any web file, let’s say “http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4” this one is a techslides’s video link. Just paste this link to the url input field and select Youtube service.

4. You are almost, Check the ‘I am not robot’ checkbox and click orange color upload button then you can see the uploading progress there. If progress bar shows 100% then you’re done. Cheers ! now you can check your Youtube.

5. You can also change the original file name by clicking the ‘change file name’ checkbox there will be a filename input field there so that you can put any name you want. Similarly, if you want to get notified in email for success/error on upload check the ‘Mail me when upload is success/error’ and fill your email there.

Conclusion: Web files can be saved to Youtube using direct link with the help of Save To Drive.

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Madhu Sudhan Subedi
savetodrive

Software Developer, Movies, TV Series, Liverpool Fan, Cricket Fan, Part Time Blogger….. www.madhusudhansubedi.com.np