Automatic video upload to YouTube and Facebook after events

Purpose

1.1. Automate consistent sharing of post-event videos directly to YouTube and Facebook accounts, ensuring wider audience reach for Buddhist temple ceremonies, dharma talks, and meditation workshops.
1.2. Automates the labor-intensive manual uploads, automating metadata population (titles, descriptions, tags), scheduling, permission settings, and cross-posting to maximize engagement with minimal resource intervention.
1.3. Enables rapid, automatable, and reliable content dissemination, strengthening content and knowledge sharing by automating the video sharing pipeline after all significant religious activities.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Event-end detection via calendar API event status (e.g., Google Calendar).
2.2. Video file saved to designated cloud storage folder (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox).
2.3. Automated metadata availability or manual completion form submitted by temple staff.
2.4. Scheduled time after event to automate batch uploads if required.

Platform Variants

3.1. YouTube Data API
• Feature: Videos.insert endpoint; configure to automate authentication, video file upload, automated captions, scheduled publish, set privacy.
3.2. Facebook Graph API
• Feature: /me/videos edge; automate token retrieval, video upload, set title, description, publish timing.
3.3. Google Drive API
• Feature: Changes.watch; automatedly watches folder for new post-event videos, triggers workflow.
3.4. Dropbox API
• Feature: /files/list_folder; automates detection of new uploads and passes file path to automator.
3.5. Box API
• Feature: POST /events; automate event-driven automations on specific folders.
3.6. Microsoft OneDrive API
• Feature: delta endpoint; automating new video additions for instant workflow triggers.
3.7. Zapier Webhooks
• Feature: Custom Webhook, automates triggering endpoint calls from file changes.
3.8. Make (Integromat)
• Feature: Watch Files action, automates multi-step flows for video processing and upload.
3.9. Google Sheets API
• Feature: Spreadsheets.values.append; automate event logging, metadata tracking for automator.
3.10. Airtable API
• Feature: POST /records; automates structured video publishing schedules and metadata curation.
3.11. Slack API
• Feature: Incoming Webhooks; automate notification to temple staff when videos uploaded.
3.12. Trello API
• Feature: Create Card; automatable workflow task tracking for each video upload.
3.13. Vimeo API
• Feature: POST /me/videos; automate alternative video hosting in parallel with YouTube/Facebook.
3.14. Wistia API
• Feature: POST /medias; automates supplementary secure sharing of event videos.
3.15. AWS S3 Event Notifications
• Feature: Lambda trigger; automate processing when new videos land in bucket.
3.16. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature: Trigger on new storage object, automates encoding or preparation scripts.
3.17. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature: On file creation (OneDrive/SharePoint); automate multi-app video flow.
3.18. Asana API
• Feature: Create Task; automate video asset workflow notifications or checklist completion.
3.19. Notion API
• Feature: Append to database; automating content calendar entries for event video publication.
3.20. Email SMTP/IMAP (e.g., Gmail API)
• Feature: Send notification; automate template-based reminders on publication.

Benefits

4.1. Automates video distribution, saving substantial admin time and reducing manual errors.
4.2. Automation increases upload reliability, ensuring key religious outreach events always appear online.
4.3. Automator ensures metadata and tags are automatically completed for higher visibility.
4.4. Automating notifications keeps all stakeholders informed and maximizes digital engagement.
4.5. The entire process is automatable, scalable, and reduces reliance on manual intervention, supporting consistent temple outreach and content knowledge sharing.