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YouTube integration
YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment
Connect YouTube to Xenition and work with it from chat, from an agent, or on a schedule — alongside every other app you have connected, in one workspace.
What you can do with YouTube
Ask in plain language and Xenition calls the right one:
- 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 deletions.
- 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 deletions. The video must exist and be owned by the authenticated channel.
- 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 channel information by channel ID, handle (e.g., @username), or to list channels owned by or managed by the authenticated user. For finding channels by search query, use the search ac
- 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 obtained by fetching the channel resource via the Channels API and extracting the playlist ID from contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads field. If the uploads playlist returns a 404
- 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 a top-level comment.
- 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). Use the 'videoId' parameter to retrieve comments on a specific video (most common use case).
- 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 filtering or display.
- 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, moderation events).
- 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's official trending or most popular videos, not keyword-search approximations.
- 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.
…and 20 more YouTube actions available in the workspace.
Give an agent access to YouTube
An agent you create can use YouTube on your behalf and keep working while you do something else. Every action an agent takes goes through an approval gate first, so nothing touches your YouTube account without you agreeing to it.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I connect YouTube to Xenition?
Open the connectors directory in Xenition, find YouTube, and sign in when the authorisation window opens. The connection is managed for you — there is no API key to create, paste or rotate.
What can Xenition do with YouTube?
Xenition can run 50 different YouTube actions, including Add Video to Playlist, Insert Channel Section, Insert Comment Reply. You ask in plain language and the right one is called for you.
Can an agent use YouTube on my behalf?
Yes. Agents can use YouTube while you do something else, and every action passes through an approval gate before it runs.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Xenition starts free with 25,000 credits a month and no credit card, and all connectors are available on every plan.