Upload Overwatch videos to GfyWatch to share with your friends!
This is a very small program that sits in the background and watches your Overwatch "videos" directory (on my machine, Documents\Overwatch\videos\overwatch), uploading new files as they arrive.
I wrote this to streamline my personal workflow around "get POTG, manually upload to Gfycat".
This tool is curently very beta - I have it working well for me, but your feedback would be most valuable.
Read on for more information about features to come.
Head over to the Releases page and download the current version!
I've currently been building for Mac and Windows and publishing the binaries.
Either:
go get -u github.com/bmhatfield/gfywatch
and then
go build
TODO: This tool needs way more tests.
Currently GfyWatch is configured to watch whatever directory it's running in. You'll also need a file called grant.json in that directory with your Gfycat credentials. It looks like this:
{
"client_id": "YourGfyCatAPIClient",
"client_secret": "YourGfyCatAPISecret",
"username": "YourGfyCatWebsiteUsername",
"password": "YourGfyCatWebsitePassword",
"grant_type": "password"
}You'll need (for now) API credentials from Gfycat: https://developers.gfycat.com/signup/#/apiform - I realize this is annoying but is currently required.
TODO: Make it easier to sign in to GfyWatch
TODO: Add
flagsupport to GfyWatch and allow the directory and config file to be specified explicitly.
Note: Gfywatch only watches for
.mp4files at the moment - it could also support.webmtrivially.
GfyWatch will automatically infer as much as it can from the filename you set in Overwatch. The intent is touchless operation - render a POTG in Overwatch, have it show up on GfyCat.
Here's some tips you can follow to get the most out of this:
- It will use the title you give it in Overwatch
- It will also analyze your title for tags based upon keywords
- It knows about all of Overwatch's heroes and will add additional tags based upon them
- If you want your video to be marked as a POTG, put POTG in the title.
- It knows about double, triple, quadruple (etc) and will use those as descriptor words for the tags. (ie; "double kill")
- It has a few other niceties about the way it tags videos.
TODO: Additional Tag analysis
TODO: Optionally cut trailing overwatch bumper.
GfyWatch will log to the cmd window that it runs in; however it is built with 0xAX/notificator. This works great on my Mac, but I haven been unable to propery get it working with GrowlForWindows.
TODO: Get notifications working on Windows
Please use Github Issues for problems running GfyWatch. Because this is a small side project to streamline sharing my Overwatch plays, PRs are much easier to incorporate than to research and fix issues.