Connect YouTube to your AI agent
YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment
We set up the connection using your own YouTube account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.
Actions
What your agent can do in YouTube
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around YouTube could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- Add Video to Playlist Tool to add a video to a playlist by inserting a playlist item. Use when organizing videos into playlists or building curated collections.
- Insert Channel Section Tool to create a new channel section for the authenticated user's YouTube channel. Use when organizing channel content into sections like featured playlists, recent uploads, or featured channels.
- Insert Comment Reply Tool to create a reply to an existing YouTube comment. Use when responding to user comments or engaging in conversations on videos.
- Create Playlist Tool to create a new YouTube playlist on the authenticated user's channel. Use when organizing videos into collections or building curated playlists.
- Delete Channel Section Tool to delete a YouTube channel section. Use when you need to remove a channel section from a channel. The channel section must exist and the authenticated user must have permission to delete it.
- Delete Comment Tool to delete a YouTube comment owned by the authenticated user or channel. Use when you need to remove a comment from a video. The comment must exist and be owned by the authenticated channel.
- Delete Playlist Tool to delete a YouTube playlist owned by the authenticated user/channel. Use when you need to permanently remove a playlist from YouTube. Requires explicit confirmation via `confirmDelete: true` to prevent accidental…
- Delete Playlist Item Tool to delete a playlist item (remove a video from a playlist). Use when removing specific videos from playlists.
- Delete Video Tool to delete a YouTube video owned by the authenticated user/channel. Use when you need to permanently remove a video from YouTube. Requires explicit confirmation via `confirmDelete: true` to prevent accidental deleti…
- Get Channel Activities Gets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.
- Get channel ID by handle Retrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.
- Get Channel Statistics Gets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts. Channels can be identified using their ID, handle (e.g., @Google), or username.
- Video Details Batch Retrieves multiple YouTube video resource parts in a single batch call. Use when you need cohort-level metrics for many videos to reduce quota usage and latency.
- Get Video Rating Retrieves the ratings that the authorized user gave to a list of specified videos. Use when you need to check if a user has liked or disliked specific videos.
- List captions Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video. Returns an empty items list if no captions are available. Raises ExecutionFailed if the video ID is invalid or not found.
- List Channels Lists YouTube channels by ID, handle, username, or ownership status, returning detailed channel information including metadata, statistics, and content details. Use this action when you need to retrieve comprehensive ch…
- List Channel Sections Tool to retrieve channel sections from YouTube. Use when you need to get the layout sections of a channel's homepage. Channel sections organize content into categories like playlists, uploads, or featured channels.
- List channel videos Lists videos from a specified YouTube channel. This action primarily uses the playlistItems.list endpoint with the channel's uploads playlist, which is the recommended approach by YouTube. The uploads playlist ID is obt…
- List Comments List individual comments from YouTube videos. Returns comment details including author, text, timestamps, and engagement metrics. Use 'id' parameter to retrieve specific comments or 'parentId' to retrieve all replies to…
- List Comment Threads (Deprecated) DEPRECATED: Use YOUTUBE_LIST_COMMENT_THREADS2 instead. List comment threads from YouTube videos or channels for qualitative analysis and reporting. Returns top-level comments with optional replies (up to 5 per thread).…
- List Comment Threads Tool to retrieve comment threads from YouTube videos or channels matching API request parameters. Use when you need to fetch comments with filtering by video, channel, or specific thread IDs.
- List I18n Languages Returns a list of application languages that the YouTube website supports. Use this when you need to retrieve all available language options for YouTube's interface or to localize content.
- List I18n Regions Tool to retrieve a list of content regions that the YouTube website supports. Returns region codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and localized region names. Use when you need to identify available geographic regions for content…
- List Live Chat Messages Tool to list live chat messages for a specific chat. Use for monitoring live chat during broadcasts or retrieving chat history. Returns messages with author details, timestamps, and message types (text, Super Chat, mode…
- List Most Popular Videos DEPRECATED: Use YOUTUBE_UPDATE_VIDEO instead. Tool to list the current most-popular (charts/trending) YouTube videos for a region and/or category via videos.list(chart=mostPopular). Use when you need to retrieve YouTube…
- List Playlist Images Tool to retrieve playlist images associated with a specific playlist. Use when fetching custom thumbnail images for playlists.
- List Playlist Items Tool to list videos in a playlist, with pagination support. Use when walking through a channel's uploads playlist to enumerate all videos.
- List Super Chat Events Lists Super Chat events for a channel, showing supporter purchases during live streams. Returns Super Chat and Super Sticker events from the past 30 days. Use to track and acknowledge supporter contributions.
- List user playlists Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.
- List user subscriptions Retrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.
- List Video Abuse Report Reasons Tool to retrieve a list of abuse report reasons that can be used to report abusive videos on YouTube. Use when you need to display available reporting categories or before calling videos.reportAbuse. Returns localized r…
- List Video Categories Tool to list YouTube video categories that can be associated with videos. Use when you need to retrieve available video categories for a specific region or get details about specific category IDs.
- Download YouTube caption track Downloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as text. Note: This action requires you to own the video (YouTube Data API v3 restriction). Non-owned vi…
- Mark Comment as Spam Tool to mark one or more YouTube comments as spam. Use when moderating comments to flag spam content. Note: This endpoint is deprecated but still functional according to YouTube API documentation.
- Multipart upload video Uploads a video to YouTube using multipart upload in a single request. Use when you want to upload both metadata and video file together. This action uploads the video file and metadata in one request, unlike resumable…
- Post Comment on Video Tool to post a new top-level comment on a YouTube video. Use when creating comments to engage with video content or respond to user requests.
- Rate Video Tool to add a like or dislike rating to a YouTube video, or remove an existing rating. Use when you need to rate videos on behalf of the authenticated user.
- Report Video for Abuse Tool to report a YouTube video for containing abusive content. Use when you need to flag videos that violate YouTube's community guidelines or contain harmful content.
- Search YouTube Searches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw API response.
- Set Comment Moderation Status Tool to set the moderation status of one or more YouTube comments. Use when moderating comments to hold for review, publish, or reject them. Optionally ban the comment author when rejecting.
- Subscribe to channel Subscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique `channelId` which must be valid and existing.
- Unsubscribe from channel Tool to unsubscribe the authenticated user from a YouTube channel by deleting a subscription. Use when you need to remove an existing subscription. The subscription ID can be obtained from the `YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_SUBSCRI…
- Update caption track Updates a YouTube caption track's metadata such as name, language, or draft status. Use this to modify existing caption track properties without uploading new caption content. Note: Only properties specified in the snip…
- Update channel Updates a channel's metadata including branding settings and localizations. Only brandingSettings, invideoPromotion, and localizations properties can be updated. Requires the channel to be owned by the authenticated use…
- Update Channel Section Tool to update an existing YouTube channel section by ID. Use when modifying section properties like title, position, or featured content.
- Update Comment Tool to modify the text of an existing YouTube comment. Use when updating or correcting a previously posted comment.
- Update Playlist Tool to modify an existing YouTube playlist's metadata (title, description, privacy status). Use when updating playlist information for the authenticated user's channel.
- Update Playlist Item Tool to modify a playlist item's properties such as position or note. Use when reordering videos in a playlist or updating item metadata.
- Update thumbnail Sets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from a URL. Requirements: - The authenticated user must own the video or have permission to edit it - The YouTube channel must be verified (phone verification…
- Update video Updates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existing tags.
- Upload video Uploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You log in with your own YouTube account. We never see your password, and you can revoke access from YouTube at any time.
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Set the guardrails
Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.
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We keep it running
Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.
FAQ
YouTube questions, answered.
You sign in with your own YouTube account. Permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, the connection is health-checked, and you can revoke access from YouTube at any time.
The actions YouTube's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.
Ready to put YouTube to work?
Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.
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