YouTube Data ACTION
Upload Video
Post a video to your channel. See the documentation for more information
- Action
- Writes data
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's YouTube Data account once, then configure and run Upload Video from your backend or agent.
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-upload-video",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
youtube_data_api: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
title: "Title",
description: "Description",
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "youtube_data_api-upload-video",
"configured_props": {
"youtube_data_api": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"title": "Title",
"description": "Description"
}
}'// 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()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "youtube_data_api-upload-video",
arguments: {
title: "Title",
description: "Description",
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
title Title | string | The video's title Required |
description Description | string | The video's description Required |
filePath File Path or URL | string | Provide either a file URL or a path to a file in the /tmp directory (for example, /tmp/myFile.pdf). Required |
privacyStatus Privacy Status | string | The video's privacy status Optional |
publishAt Publish At | string | The date and time when the video is scheduled to publish. If you set this, the Privacy Status must be set to private. Only available to Youtube Partner accounts. Optional |
tags Tags | string[] | A list of keyword tags associated with the video. Tags may contain spaces. Optional |
notifySubscribers Notify Subscribers | boolean | Set to true if YouTube should send a notification about the new video to users who subscribe to the video's channel. Optional |
syncDir SyncDir | dir | Optional |
REFERENCE
Tool details
Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.
- Registry key
- youtube_data_api-upload-video
- Version
- 1.0.2
- App
- YouTube Data
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- No
- Destructive
- No
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗