Channel

Channel connects your flow to your YouTube channel to look up its details and keep its information up to date: see the name, description, subscriber, view and video statistics, or the channel’s status, and change its country, description, default language or keywords.

It is useful to follow how the channel evolves without opening YouTube Studio, and to update its information at the same time as other systems, for example when your brand description changes.

When to use it

• Save the channel’s subscribers, views and videos in a spreadsheet every week.
• Send the marketing team a monthly report on how the channel is doing.
• Update the channel description when you launch a campaign.
• Change the channel keywords depending on the season.

Configuration

You need a Youtube API credential, which connects by signing in with your Google account. When you create it you must enter the Client ID and Client Secret of your own Google Cloud project. See Credentials.

Field	What it does
Credential (required)	The Youtube API credential used to access your channel.
Operation	What the component does. See Operations. Default: Get Channel.
Info consult	Only in Get Channel. Which information to return; you can choose several. Channel Info (name, description, image, channel address, creation date, country and language), Liked And Upload Playlists (IDs of the uploaded videos list and the liked videos list), Statistics (subscribers, views and number of videos) and Status (privacy, monetization and whether it is declared as made for kids). Default: Channel Info.
Select Update	Only in Update Channel. Which channel detail to change: Channel Country, Channel Description, Channel Default Language or Channel Keywords. The matching field appears depending on your choice. Default: Channel Country.
Country Code	With Channel Country. The channel’s country. Once you pick the credential, the list shows the countries YouTube offers.
Description	With Channel Description. The new channel description.
Default Language	With Channel Default Language. The channel’s default language. Once you pick the credential, the list shows the languages YouTube offers.
Keywords	With Channel Keywords. The new channel keywords.

Operations

Operation	What it does
Get Channel	Returns the information chosen in Info consult for the connected account’s channel.
Update Channel	Changes the detail chosen in Select Update. The rest of the channel information is kept.

Output

The Result output returns the channel with the requested information: its ID (id) and, depending on your choice, its name (title), description, country, language, keywords (keywords), subscribers (subscribers), views (views), number of videos (videos) or its status. After Update Channel, it returns the channel’s updated details.

You can connect the result to a spreadsheet to keep a history or to an agent to prepare a report. The component can also be connected to an Agent as a tool. See Tool Mode.

Example

An online academy wants to follow the growth of its channel.

1. Schedule the flow every Monday. See Scheduler.
2. Add Channel with the Get Channel operation and choose Statistics in Info consult.
3. Save the subscribers, views and videos in a spreadsheet together with the date.
4. Once a month, pass the spreadsheet to an agent that writes a summary of the trend for the team.

Good practices

• The component works with the channel of the Google account you used to create the credential.
• Change one detail per run: Select Update accepts a single option.

Related components

• Video: uploads, looks up and manages videos.
• Playlist: manages the channel’s playlists.