Google Drive Movie Manager

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I don't know about anyone else, but most of these movie sites that exist are garbage, because they compress the videos so much... So to circumvent this, I started making Google Accounts and uploading DVD and Blu-Ray rips to them so I could stream them from anywhere while hosting them outside of my computer (no data loss).

Now comes the annoying part, a lot of Google Drive accounts. So I started making a spreadsheet of username/passwords, but I did not write down the movies that were in each drive account, because they change so frequently. So i have to go and login to the account and do a search to see if it's on the account. If it isn't, logout and try another that I think it might be in. Of course, now you have the problem of, what if you have 400+ accounts that have no naming convention.

In comes my idea.

A program that contains a list of my drive accounts, but also holds a database of movies and links. When I know i've changed some, I just 'refresh the list' and it goes through all of my drive accounts and recreates the database.

Phases

Phase 1 - Single Account

• List All Movies On Account In List View [ Complete ]
• Click List Item to get Shareable Link [ Complete ]
• Searchable (Not important at this time)

Phase 2 - Multiple Accounts

• Account Manager [ Complete ]
• Select Account from list and retrieve as in Phase 1 [ Complete ]

Phase 3 - Movie List and Shareable List Database

• Maintain Database Locally [ Complete ]
• Retrieve Lists from All Accounts in Account Manager [ Not Added ]
• Searchable Database [ Complete ]

* Phase 2 - Account Manager

To add an account, you need to do the following:
1. Log into Google.
2. Visit Google API Console
3. Make a project in Google Developer Console
4. Goto Dashboard -> Enable API
5. Choose Google Drive API and click "Enable API" at the top.
6. Create Credentials for the account.
7. Copy those credentials and secret into the program

Once you have the credentials, you can copy/paste them into the accounts, and you will only need to do one authorization for the account the first time you load the files. If you delete the account, you will have to log into each account, and re-copy all the details. So be careful. I disable the delete button and moved it away from the add account button just incase

You can build your own solution and look through the source here: [ Dropbox ] [ GitHub ]

Here is a video vverview of the program and how I did things etc. if you learn through visual explanations or are bored (heh)

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Account Manager Status Update (Jan 27th, 2017)

So last night I got adding / saving / deleting of accounts, however, I ran into a snag with Google's OAuth2 system.

It seems that for Google Drive API you can't use the email/password to get a token, you have to use their service account/oauth2 credentials on each account. So for now, until I can figure out a more automated system, you have to create a project with that account in the google developer console, then create a credential for the program, which you copy/paste the credential and secret into the program.

I am working on it... We will see if it's possible or if they locked down the drive account specifically for people like me lol.

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Current Status as of tonight. Going to read up on better ways to do the OAuth2... has to be a way to do it.

[zycamzip]

Instead of all that... have you tried uploading to youtube as a private video? What about Veoh.com? And finally... Openload.co which is the same host 123movies uses - if you mark the movies as private then you will have nothing to fear about them being taken down, as no one else can view them.

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Option 1) Youtube catches them really fast. (Digital ID Restriction per Country)
Option 2) Veoh sucks
Option 3) Openload.co doesn't use autosync (which is required for the real reason I am making this program). It is for a cytu.be channel where we watch movies, however, none of the hosts have auto-sync besides youtube and google and vimeo. But Vimeo sucks too. Really restrictive free accounts.

Google Drive is one of the only places that suit all the needs of the channel's back-end functionality. :/

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So last Update before I do the search part to finish it up (but not in a huge hurry at this point).

I found out that it's not possible to do what I want as far as username only with Google Drive API. So seeing as that is the case, I decided to kind of ignore most of that functionality and the project is not really useful for any kind of big public thing.

I will however, release the source code for what I have done right now. I will update when I get the search functionality, but if anyone else is interested in how this all works, you are welcome to browse through the code. I am going through and adding some comments so people can kind of sorta understand what is going on in certain points where I had problems figuring things out by trial and error Give me a few minutes to have it available.

[zycamzip]

There was an article up on torrentfreak which mentioned using youtube, but restricting the video to private made it hosted not on youtube's normal server. Because they aren't on the normal server, they don't automatically get checked. Perhaps the answer lies in adding to the video before, after, and changing the properties a bit? Then uploading as private?

Adult themed streaming sites are using a loophole in Google's services to store infringing material at no cost. Google's servers are increasingly being used as a hosting platform, by exploiting YouTube's private publishing backdoor.

Porn Pirate Sites Use 'Backdoor' to Host Videos on YouTube - TorrentFreak


Out of curiosity, could you use a seedbox to do what you want? I have one of my websites hosted on one, and it gives unlimited bandwidth with 2TB of data (much cheaper then a dedicated server - 99.9% uptime in 2 years).

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The problem is the 'synchronized timeline' method that Google Drive can use *like Youtube*. You know when you go back to a video and it starts where you left off. That's kind of the same idea, however, it is on a site wide basis. So that everyone is automatically updated on the current time, and they cannot skip around because it just rubber bands back to the current time frame.

It's kind of a cool system. Think of it like ... Remember on the old XBox 360 when you had the Netflix and you could invite a friend over XBLive to watch a movie together with voice chat... That's about as close as you can get to it. heh

Edit: I read the post just now, and that's exactly what we do. The playlist, however, is only visible to the administrator/moderator/staff. Regular people cannot see it, so you can't just walk in and steal links.

When Star Wars Ep 7 came out, there was a fight to see who could get the best quality one first and put it up in the channel like 9 times a day. We did the same for movies like Deadpool and Suicide Squad, Batman movie... all that.

If we see another channel with the video link, we scope it out as a guest account to see what quality they're running and see if it's a private file of theirs, or if it's one of the ones on any given site.

[zycamzip]

Well, I am saddened, that I couldn't be of more help.

However, I do have something you might be interested in - In Las Vegas, they have a Drive-In. The Drive-In broadcasts on to a localized FM channel. Anyone within a a few hundred feet, can record off the various channels. You know when you record CAM or Telesync, the sound is shit because of the echos and other noises? Basically, you have to wait for an R5 for good quality sound.
Find someone in Vegas (or another locale where they have a drive-in which broadcasts to FM) to record the sound to a WAV for you. Then you will be a step-up on the competition.

Though I am usually a leecher, would appreciate access... always nice to have additional sources for movies/tv etc.

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I miss Drive-Ins. They got rid of all the ones around here :s

But ya, that would be good. Unfortunately I am in Canada lol