YouTube (Data API) - Custom App

Connect to the YouTube Data API with a custom OAuth client

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

Overview

What can I build using YouTube's Data API?

The YouTube Data API (also known as the YouTube Custom App API) is a powerful tool that enables developers to build applications that interact with YouTube's platform. With it, developers can create apps that display data about the videos and channels on YouTube, fetch metadata about specific videos, modify existing videos, and much more.

Some of the many possibilities enabled by the YouTube Data API include:

  • Building applications that search for relevant videos and channels within YouTube
  • Displaying detailed information about specific videos and channels
  • Modifying existing videos
  • Uploading videos to YouTube
  • Constructing an application that categorizes videos and channels by topics
  • Constructing an application that shows video comments
  • Creating an object detection detection application that can detect objects present in a video
  • Fetching metadata about videos and channels
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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    youtube_data_api_custom_app: {
      type: "app",
      app: "youtube_data_api_custom_app",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.youtube_data_api_custom_app.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})
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Authentication

YouTube (Data API) - Custom App uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your YouTube (Data API) - Custom App account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into YouTube (Data 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 (Data API) - Custom App API.

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

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.uploadhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl
OAuth Request Configurations:
  1. 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}}&access_type=offline&prompt=consent
  2. 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}}
  3. 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}}