YouTube

YouTube is a video-publishing integration via Google’s YouTube Data API.

Publish video

Upload a video to a channel.

Analytics

Views, likes, comments, subscribers.

Connect

Google OAuth flow:

curl "https://api.plugkit.co/v1/connect/youtube?profileId=YOUR_PROFILE_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_your_key"

Open the returned authUrl, approve on Google’s consent screen, and the channel is connected after the callback.

Publish a video

Provide a public video URL. YouTube requires a title — pass one explicitly with title (100 characters max); without it, PlugKit falls back to the start of content, which is a stopgap:

curl -X POST https://api.plugkit.co/v1/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_your_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "profileId": "PROFILE_ID", "accountIds": ["ACCOUNT_ID"],
        "title": "Episode 1 — how we built it",
        "content": "Full description here…",
        "mediaItems": [{ "type": "video", "url": "https://…/video.mp4" }],
        "privacy": "public", "publishNow": true }'

Until your Google/YouTube app is verified, uploads land as private. This is a Google requirement — publish publicly once verification is granted.

privacy accepts public, unlisted or private.

Analytics

YouTube feeds the analytics store: views, likes and comments per video, plus subscriber count measured daily. Videos uploaded outside PlugKit are picked up too.

These are totals since publication, not a day-by-day series. Per-day views live in the YouTube Analytics API, which requires a separate Google audit — so the daily series PlugKit shows is the one it records itself, from the day you connect. A channel that hides its subscriber count returns null, not 0.

Not supported

Messaging and comments aren’t exposed.

Permissions

Scopes: youtube.upload (publishing) and youtube.readonly (analytics).

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Publish a video

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Publish video

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Connect

Publish a video

Analytics

Not supported

Permissions