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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.

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

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.

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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