YouTube Channel Website Features - YouTube Videos as Posts:
1. Free
Hosting using GitHub Pages and open-source code base in GitHub.
2. It
can update all the videos, title, and description available inside the channel
into the website everyday automatically using the GitHub Actions feature.
3. No
need to manually do any step after posting any new video in YouTube, it will be
updated in website on next day.
How to Reuse this Action Template which creates a personal website for the YouTube videos in my channel hosted in GitHub Pages using Jekyll and GitHub Actions for free!
1. Copy
this GitHub Action below:
- name:
YouTube-Videos-As-Posts
uses:
SSanjeevi/YouTubeVideosAsPosts@Release1.0.0
with:
GoogleApiKey: ${{
secrets.GoogleApiKey }}
channelName: 'channel_Name'
- name: Commit and push update
run: |-
git config --global user.email
"youremailid@gmail.com"
git config --global user.name
"yourUserName"
git add -A
git commit -m "Updated YouTube
Video posts from GitHub Actions"
git push
2. Here
GoogleApiKey secret should contain value of Google console Api id. Refer this
video to generate the Api key - YouTube
Video to get google console Api id or follow this article. After getting Google
API key by following above article or video - follow this article to update the secrets in the
repo with name - GoogleApiKey.
3. Clone
or use any Jekyll Theme for the repo - e.g.: i have cloned this repo in this
website. If you need readymade repo then, Just Fork this repo: Fork this on GitHub so that you will have
the pipeline and website setup with this theme as it and just update the
pipeline GitHub Action with YouTube Channel name and update secret by following
above steps.
4. Keep
the _posts folder empty - this Action will create all the videos as posts in
the repository.
5. Enable
the repo as GitHub pages - Follow this article.
6. You
are ready with a website with Videos embedded in GitHub Pages
Embedded
the website created by following this document here
and the direct URL is this.
Image
of website:
