YouTube

Google Workspace

Search videos, manage your channel, playlists, and analytics

What You Can Do

The YouTube Data API gives you broad access to video search, channel management, playlist operations, and basic analytics. OpenClaw surfaces all of it conversationally.

  • Search videos — Query YouTube by keyword, channel, category, date, and sort order
  • Get video details — Title, description, tags, view count, like count, duration, publish date
  • List channel videos — All uploads from a specific channel
  • Channel info — Subscriber count, view count, description, custom URL
  • Your channel — Access your own channel's full details and settings
  • Upload management — List, update titles/descriptions/tags on your video uploads
  • Playlist operations — Create playlists, add videos, remove videos, list playlist items
  • Comments — Read top-level comments and replies on any video
  • Video categories — List available categories for upload metadata
  • Captions — List caption tracks on a video
  • Analytics — View count trends, watch time, demographics (requires YouTube Analytics API)

    • Try Asking

  • "Search YouTube for the best tutorials on Rust async programming"
  • "How many subscribers does Fireship have?"
  • "List my 10 most recent YouTube uploads"
  • "Update the description on my latest video to include the chapter timestamps"
  • "Create a playlist called 'AI Research Papers 2025' and add these 5 videos"
  • "Show me the top 20 comments on my most popular video"
  • "Find all videos from the 'Google Cloud' channel published this month"
  • "What are the view counts on my last 5 uploads?"

    • Pro Tips

  • Video IDs are the 11-character strings in YouTube URLs (`?v=XXXXXXXXXXX`)
  • Search results are ranked by YouTube's algorithm; use `order=date` for recent videos
  • Channel IDs start with `UC`; handles start with `@` — the agent resolves both
  • Updating video metadata requires that the video is on YOUR channel (OAuth scope required)
  • Playlists can be public, unlisted, or private — specify on creation
  • Rate limit: 10,000 quota units per day; search costs 100 units, reads cost 1–5 units