CodeDirector

What CodeDirector is

CodeDirector is a Windows desktop application for solo developers, educators, and open-source maintainers. It takes a codebase and its documentation, plans a step-by-step programming lesson, replays the coding steps deterministically inside Visual Studio Code and a browser, and then adds AI voice-over, camera moves, a cursor overlay, and subtitles to render a finished programming-tutorial video, so a creator can produce a YouTube-style coding tutorial without recording their screen or speaking on camera.

App functionality

CodeDirector's core workflow is local video creation. The user selects a project, writes or imports lesson notes, generates a tutorial plan, previews the scripted coding sequence, renders the video on their own computer, and can then save the file locally. Publishing to YouTube is an optional final step and is never required to create or export a video.

YouTube API access and user data purpose

CodeDirector requests YouTube access only for its optional Publish to YouTube feature. When the user connects their Google account, CodeDirector requests the YouTube Data API v3 scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload.

• Purpose: upload the finished tutorial video file to the user's own YouTube channel after the user explicitly clicks "Publish".
• Data sent to YouTube: the video file selected by the user, plus the title, description, tags, and visibility settings the user enters in CodeDirector.
• OAuth data stored locally: access and refresh tokens issued by Google are stored only on the user's computer so the app can complete the upload and avoid asking the user to sign in every time.
• Data not accessed: CodeDirector does not read the user's existing videos, subscribers, comments, watch history, playlists, analytics, or Google account password.

CodeDirector runs as a desktop app with no CodeDirector server or backend receiving Google user data. The Google sign-in happens in the user's own browser, and upload traffic goes directly between the user's computer and Google's official YouTube APIs over HTTPS.

TikTok publishing

The same optional Publish feature can post the finished video to the creator's own TikTok account through TikTok's official Content Posting API (video.publish scope), following the identical sign-in-in-your-own-browser, tokens-stored-locally model.