YouTube
by Google
Search YouTube videos, retrieve video and channel metadata, read comments, manage playlists, and get video captions for content analysis and research workflows.
How agents use YouTube
- ✓Agent searches YouTube for the latest videos on a topic and summarises them using an LLM node
- ✓Agent retrieves video statistics to track performance metrics and log them to a spreadsheet or database
- ✓Agent reads top comments on a video to analyse audience sentiment or extract frequently asked questions
- ✓Agent monitors a competitor's channel for new video uploads and notifies the team via Slack or email
- ✓Agent creates a curated playlist by searching for relevant videos and adding them programmatically
- ✓Agent extracts caption track availability to determine whether a video is suitable for transcription workflows
- ✓Agent compiles a weekly digest of trending videos in a niche and delivers it as a report
Agent actions
Inputs: query, maxResults, order, publishedAfter, channelId, videoDuration
Returns: videos, videoCount, nextPageToken, totalResults
Inputs: videoIds
Returns: videos, videoCount
Inputs: videoId
Returns: videoId, title, viewCount, likeCount, commentCount, publishedAt, duration, stats
Inputs: channelId
Returns: channelId, title, description, subscriberCount, videoCount, viewCount, channel
Inputs: channelId, maxResults, pageToken
Returns: videos, videoCount, nextPageToken, totalResults
Inputs: videoId, maxResults, order, searchTerms
Returns: comments, commentCount, nextPageToken
Inputs: videoId
Returns: captions, captionCount
Inputs: title, description, privacyStatus
Returns: playlistId, playlistUrl, playlist
Inputs: playlistId, videoId, position
Returns: playlistItemId, playlistId, videoId
Example workflows
Competitor content monitoring
Periodically list videos from a competitor's channel, retrieve stats, and log new uploads to a Notion database.
Topic research digest
Search for the top 10 videos on a given topic, retrieve their titles and view counts, and pass them to an LLM for summarisation.
About YouTube
- Vendor
- Pricing Always review details with the vendor
- Free / Paid — The YouTube Data API is free within the default 10,000 unit daily quota. Additional quota requires a paid tier via Google Cloud.
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Rate limit Always review details with the vendor
- 100 requests / minute
- Compatible nodes
- AgentResourceInputOutput
- Website
- https://www.youtube.com
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