YouTube (Analytics API)

The YouTube Reporting and YouTube Analytics APIs let you retrieve YouTube Analytics data to automate complex reporting tasks, build custom dashboards, and much more.

Integrate the YouTube (Analytics API) API with the Node API

Setup the YouTube (Analytics API) API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Node API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate YouTube (Analytics API) and Node remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Run Node Code with the Node API

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Overview of YouTube (Analytics API)

Google's YouTube (Analytics API) allows developers to extract insights and
valuable analytics data from their YouTube channels. By using the YouTube
Analytics API, developers can create comprehensive reports and analysis tools
that show how content is performing on YouTube. With this powerful API,
developers can create applications that measure audience engagement, understand
how videos impact an audience’s behavior, and analyze how audience demographic
influences viewership.

Below are just a few examples of the powerful and comprehensive analytics
solutions you can build with the YouTube (Analytics API):

  • Track and segment user engagements with videos and channels.
  • Monitor and compare user engagement with different types of content.
  • See the demographic breakdown of your viewers.
  • Measure audience retention and monitor the impact of different strategies.
  • Analyze how content virality affects overall viewership.
  • Insight into viewer attention and viewership for individual videos and
    channels.
  • Detect anomalies and gauge overall performance of content over time.
  • Predict how various changes (e.g. content optimizations) will impact
    viewership.

Connect YouTube (Analytics API)

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

Connect Node

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// To use previous step data, pass the `steps` object to the run() function
export default defineComponent({
  async run({ steps, $ }) {
    // Return data to use it in future steps
    return steps.trigger.event
  },
})

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