Yep! I'm the creator of YouTubeDrive, and there's absolutely nothing in the code that depends on the symbolic manipulation capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica -- you could easily port it to Python, C++, whatever. However, there are two non-technical reasons YouTubeDrive is written in Mathematica:

(1) I was a freshman in college at the time, and Mathematica is one of the first languages I learned. (My physics classes allowed us to use Mathematica to spare us from doing integrals by hand.)

(2) I intentionally chose a language that's a bit obtuse to use. I was afraid that I might attract unwanted attention from Google if YouTubeDrive were too easy for anybody to download and run.

Cool thanks. This is an ingenious idea in the true hackers spirit. Well done.

I remember seeing years ago a python library called BitGlitter which did the same thing. It would convert any file to a image or video. You could then upload the file yourself. https://pypi.org/project/BitGlitter/

Looks like the github page is deleted. Its better not to use it anymore.