Youtube Analytics (Lite)

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

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see Change processing.

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.

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

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.