YouTube

TryPost supports uploading YouTube Shorts.

Connect your account

Go to Accounts in the TryPost dashboard
Click Connect YouTube
Authorize TryPost with your Google account
Select the YouTube channel to connect

Supported content types

Type	Aspect ratio	Description
Short	9:16	Vertical video up to 3 minutes (required)

OAuth scopes

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly yt-analytics.readonly powers the Analytics dashboard’s YouTube view.

Self-hosting setup

Configure Google/YouTube API credentials

Go to Google Cloud Console and create a project
Enable the YouTube Data API v3 and YouTube Analytics API
Create OAuth 2.0 credentials
Add the scopes listed above to the OAuth consent screen
Set the redirect URL to {APP_URL}/accounts/youtube/callback
Add to your .env:

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
GOOGLE_CLIENT_REDIRECT="${APP_URL}/accounts/youtube/callback"

The same Google credentials are used for YouTube and Google Login. Add both callback URLs to your OAuth client.