YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App API Integrations

Build and run workflows using the YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App API. Use 1000s of source-available triggers and actions across 2,000+ apps. Or write custom code to integrate any app or API in seconds.

Overview#

The YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App on Pipedream enables content creators, marketers, and developers to deeply understand the performance of their YouTube channels and videos through automated data retrieval. By tapping into metrics like view counts, likes, comments, and watch time, users can craft strategies to optimize their content and increase engagement. With Pipedream's serverless platform, these insights can trigger workflows, inform content creators in real-time, and integrate smoothly with other apps for a seamless data processing experience.

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    youtube_analytics_api_custom_app: {
      type: "app",
      app: "youtube_analytics_api_custom_app",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.youtube_analytics_api_custom_app.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Example Use Cases#

Channel Performance Dashboard Automation: Automate the collection of YouTube Analytics data to feed into a Google Sheets dashboard. Use the YouTube Analytics API to retrieve daily stats on video performance, channel views, and subscriber counts. Use Google Sheets actions in Pipedream to insert this data into a spreadsheet, providing a real-time overview of channel health.
Subscriber Engagement Alerting: Set up a workflow to monitor new comments and likes on your most recent videos. The YouTube Analytics API can fetch these metrics, and with Pipedream's conditional logic, you can trigger email notifications using the SendGrid app when certain engagement thresholds are met, keeping you closely connected to your audience's pulse.
Content Optimization Insights: Combine the YouTube Analytics data with natural language processing (NLP) to analyze comments sentiment on your videos. Use the YouTube Analytics API to collect comments, then pass them to an NLP service like Google Cloud's Natural Language API via Pipedream. Integrate the results back into your content strategy to produce more of what your audience loves.

Authentication#

YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any YouTube (Analytics API) - Custom App API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics-monetary.readonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly

OAuth Request Configurations:

authorization
GEThttps://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth?client_id={{custom_fields.client_id}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&state={{oauth.state}}&response_type=code&scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}&prompt=consent&access_type=offline
accessToken
POSThttps://oauth2.googleapis.com/tokencontent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept: application/json
client_id={{custom_fields.client_id}}&client_secret={{custom_fields.client_secret}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&grant_type=authorization_code&code={{oauth.code}}
refreshToken
POSThttps://oauth2.googleapis.com/tokencontent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept: application/json
client_id={{custom_fields.client_id}}&client_secret={{custom_fields.client_secret}}&grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}