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Written by Ben Keeling

The YouTube integration connects your YouTube channel to Medialake. It syncs your channel's playlists and videos — each video becomes a file carrying its metadata and thumbnail — and captures organic performance metrics (views, likes, comments). Everything is read-only: Medialake never uploads, edits, or deletes anything on your channel.


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At a glance

Property

Value

Category

Social video

Auth method

OAuth 2.0 — Google sign-in

Permissions

youtube.readonly — a genuinely read-only scope

API

YouTube Data API v3

Token renewal

Automatic (Google refresh tokens) — expires only after ~6 months unused

Metrics capture

Lifetime totals per video, refreshed on each sync


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What it syncs

Your channel and its playlists (the folder structure you browse and select), the videos inside them — ingested as files with their metadata and thumbnails — and each video's organic metrics: views, likes, and comments.


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Pages in this integration

  1. Authentication — the permission we request, who should connect, and how to revoke access

  2. Data Mapping — the objects we sync and the exact fields we read

  3. Metrics Reference — every metric and its YouTube source


Questions? Contact [email protected].

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