yt-notify/README.md

yt-notify

util for notification about new live streams from YouTube to your Telegram channel

requirements

• aiohttp
• Telethon
• python >= 3.8
• token form BotFather
• api_id and api_id form telegram.org
• CHAT_ID could be obtained with get_chat_id.py
• channels.json

usage

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ python -OO -- main.py

---

channels list

format

[
  {
    "id": "UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA"
  },
  {
    "id": "UCVls1GmFKf6WlTraIb_IaJg",
    "timeout": 300,
    "chat": 1010101
  }
]

mandatory:

• id - channel id obtained with get_yt_id.py

optional:

• timeout - timeout in seconds between new videos info requests
• chat - you can specify another Telegram chat locally, to use it instead of CHAT_ID from config.py

---

utils

get_chat_id.py

get id of telegram channel for CHAT_ID in config.py

usage

before running you need specify your API_ID, API_HASH and TOKEN in config.py

then add bot to your channel and send any message to this channel and bot will print id of your channel

get_yt_id.py

get id of YouTube channel by name

usage

$ python3 get_yt_id.py https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz
UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA