YouTube Analytics
This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the YouTube Analytics source connector.
Prerequisites
YouTube does not start to generate a report until you create a reporting job for that report. Airbyte creates a reporting job for your report or uses the current reporting job if it already exists. The report will be available within 48 hours of creating the reporting job and will be for the day that the job was scheduled. For example, if you schedule a job on September 1, 2015, then the report for September 1, 2015, will be ready on September 3, 2015. The report for September 2, 2015, will be posted on September 4, 2015, and so forth. Youtube also generates historical data reports covering the 30-day period prior to when you created the job. Airbyte syncs all available historical data too.
Setup guide
Step 1: Set up YouTube Analytics
- Go to the YouTube Reporting API dashboard in the project for your service user. Enable the API for your account.
- Use your Google account and authorize over Google's OAuth 2.0 on connection setup. Please make sure to grant the following authorization scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly.
Step 2: Set up the YouTube Analytics connector in Airbyte
For Airbyte Cloud:
- Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
- In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click +new source.
- On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the YouTube Analytics connector and select YouTube Analytics from the Source type dropdown.
- Select
Authenticate your account. - Log in and Authorize to the Youtube account and click
Set up source.
For Airbyte OSS:
- In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click +new source.
- On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the YouTube Analytics connector and select YouTube Analytics from the Source type dropdown.
- Enter your
client_id - Enter your
client_secret - Enter your
refresh_token - Click
Set up source.
Supported sync modes
The YouTube Analytics source connector supports the following sync modes:
| Feature | Supported? |
|---|---|
| Full Refresh Sync | Yes |
| Incremental Sync | Yes |
| SSL connection | Yes |
| Channel Reports | Yes |
| Content Owner Reports | Coming soon |
| YouTube Data API | Coming soon |
Supported Streams
- channel_annotations_a1
- channel_basic_a3
- channel_cards_a1
- channel_combined_a3
- channel_demographics_a1
- channel_device_os_a3
- channel_end_screens_a1
- channel_playback_location_a3
- channel_province_a3
- channel_sharing_service_a1
- channel_subtitles_a3
- channel_traffic_source_a3
- playlist_basic_a2
- playlist_combined_a2
- playlist_device_os_a2
- playlist_playback_location_a2
- playlist_province_a2
- playlist_traffic_source_a2
Performance considerations
The YouTube Reporting API has the following quota limits:
- Free requests per day: 20,000
- Free requests per 100 seconds: 100
- Free requests per minute: 60
The connector retrieves bulk report data from YouTube's reporting jobs, which minimizes API quota usage compared to making individual queries for each metric.
Reference
Config fields reference
Changelog
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| Version | Date | Pull Request | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.0 | 2025-11-17 | 69352 | Promoting release candidate 1.1.0-rc.1 to a main version. |
| 1.1.0-rc.1 | 2025-11-02 | 42838 | Migrate to Manifest-only |
| 1.0.0 | 2025-10-29 | 66558 | Update deprecated channel and playlist BULK reports |
| 0.2.0 | 2025-02-07 | 53196 | Update check connection and empty responses |
| 0.1.7 | 2025-02-26 | 54696 | Update requests-mock dependency version |
| 0.1.6 | 2024-06-17 | 39529 | Pin CDK version to 0.38.0 |
| 0.1.5 | 2024-05-21 | 38546 | [autopull] base image + poetry + up_to_date |
| 0.1.4 | 2023-05-22 | 26420 | Migrate to advancedAuth |
| 0.1.3 | 2022-09-30 | 17454 | Added custom backoff logic |
| 0.1.2 | 2022-09-29 | 17399 | Fixed 403 error while check connection |
| 0.1.1 | 2022-08-18 | 15744 | Fix channel_basic_a2 schema fields data type |
| 0.1.0 | 2021-11-01 | 7407 | Initial Release |