Every new Instagram reel is automatically re-published as a YouTube Short
🔌 Connecting…
⚙️ Setup (one time)
📖 How to get the Google Client ID & Secret (~15 min, one time)
1. Go to console.cloud.google.com → sign in with the Google account that owns your YouTube channel. 2. Top bar → project dropdown → New Project → name it "PunjabiLibas" → Create. 3. Left menu → APIs & Services → Library → search YouTube Data API v3 → Enable. 4.APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen → User type External → fill app name + your email → Save. Under Test users add your own Google email → Save. 5.APIs & Services → Credentials → Create Credentials → OAuth client ID → type Web application. 6. Under Authorised redirect URIs click Add URI and paste exactly: https://punjabilibas.com/reels-api.php?oauth=callback 7. Create → copy the Client ID and Client Secret into the fields above → Save Settings → click Connect YouTube → choose your channel → Allow.
Note: while the consent screen is in "Testing", the connection expires every 7 days. To make it permanent, go back to OAuth consent screen and click Publish app (no Google review needed for uploading to your own channel).
⏰ Automatic Publishing
Add this as a cron job in cPanel (Cron Jobs → Add New Cron Job), set to run every 6 hours — command: —
It checks for new reels and uploads any that aren't on YouTube yet (max 3 per run). You can also just click the button below whenever you like.