YouTube Data icon

CONNECT APP

Build with YouTube Data

With the YouTube Data API, you can add a variety of YouTube features to your application. Use the API to upload videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings, and more.

Entertainment

  • OAuth

MCP

Give your agent YouTube Data tools

Every YouTube Data action is exposed as an MCP tool on Pipedream's remote server. Point a client at it with your end user's ID and Connect resolves that user's YouTube Data account for each tool call — you store no tokens.

// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
  new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
  {
    requestInit: {
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
        "x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
        "x-pd-environment": "production",
        "x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
        "x-pd-app-slug": "youtube_data_api",
      },
    },
  },
)

const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)

const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()

// e.g. run Add Playlist Items:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
  name: "youtube_data_api-add-playlist-items",
  arguments: {
    playlistId: "Playlist ID",
    videoIds: ["Video IDs"],
  },
})

API PROXY

Call the YouTube Data API directly

For an endpoint with no pre-built tool, the Connect proxy forwards your request to the YouTube Data API with the connected user's credentials attached. You store no tokens and write no refresh logic.

const resp = await pd.proxy.get({
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  accountId: "apn_xxxxxxx",
  url: "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo",
})

// Any allowed YouTube Data endpoint works here. Pipedream attaches the
// connected account's credentials to the outgoing request.

SDK

Run YouTube Data actions from your backend

Connect a user's YouTube Data account once, then run Add Playlist Items on their behalf from your own code — TypeScript, Python, or plain HTTP.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "youtube_data_api-add-playlist-items",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    youtube_data_api: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    playlistId: "Playlist ID",
    videoIds: ["Video IDs"],
  },
})

TOOLS

YouTube Data actions

On-demand operations your product or agent can configure and run on behalf of a connected user.

MULTI-APP

Use YouTube Data with other popular apps

Most products don't stop at one integration. Pair YouTube Data with the other apps your users rely on, and ship use cases that span both.

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REFERENCE

App details

Reference metadata for the YouTube Data connector in the Pipedream registry.

App slug
youtube_data_api
Authentication
OAuth
Categories
Entertainment
Actions
19
Triggers
10
API proxy
Available

OAuth scopes

These are the scopes Pipedream's managed YouTube Data OAuth client requests when one of your users connects an account. Supply your own OAuth client to request a different set.

  • email
  • profile
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl