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Youtube Analytics 

Youtube Analytics is the analytics service by Youtube to better understand your video and channel performance with key metrics.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

  • Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

  • Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

  • Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Youtube Analytics data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

Information noteMake sure that the account you use has read access to the tables you want to fetch.

To obtain your client ID and secret:

  1. Connect to Google Cloud Console.
  2. In the Youtube Analytics API section, click Enable.
  3. Select Credentials and click Create Credentials.
  4. Click OAuth client ID and select Web application.
  5. After Authorized redirect URIs, click ADD URI.
  6. Enter the url https://connector.qlik.com/auth/oauth/v3.htm.
  7. Click Create. Your client ID and secret are generated.

To obtain you channel ID: Go to your Youtube channel. The ID is at the end of the URL: www.youtube.com/channel/.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

  1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

    You may be asked to log in to the source application.

    A window is displayed with an authentication code.

  2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

  3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

    Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

    When status is Verified,the authentication is verified.

  4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

  5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

Connection settings
Setting Description
Data gateway

Select a Data Movement gateway if required by your use case.

Information note

This field is not available with the Qlik Talend Cloud Starter subscription, as it does not support Data Movement gateway. If you have another subscription tier and do not want to use Data Movement gateway, select None.

For information on the benefits of Data Movement gateway and use cases that require it, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.
Client Id

Client ID.
Client Secret

Client secret.
Report Start Date

Report start date.
Report End Date Report end date.
Channel ID

Channel ID. The ID is the end of the URL: www.youtube.com/channel/

To get reporting from the channel attached to your Google account, set this value to MINE.
Dimensions

Dimensions.

Example: day.
Metrics Metrics.

Example: views,comments,likes,dislikes,videosAddedToPlaylists,shares,estimatedMinutesWatched,subscribersLost.

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