YouTube Data

The Qlik YouTube Data Connector uses the YouTube Data API to extract YouTube data, such as channel comments and video statistics, and load that data into your Qlik Sense app.

The built-in web connectors are only available on SaaS editions of Qlik Sense.

Ways to access your data

To access your YouTube data, you will need to authenticate the connector with your YouTube account credentials. After you create a connection and select YouTube as your data source, you will be redirected to a YouTube login page to retrieve your authentication token.

Creating a connection and selecting data

Loading data from tables

After you authenticate the connector with your account credentials, you can use the following tables to select and load data:

Table	Description
UserVideos	Shows the list of videos from the authenticated user.
VideoSearch	Shows the public videos based on a search query.
ChannelSearch	Shows the public YouTube channels based on a search query.
VideoStatistics	Shows the video statistics for a video based on the video ID. Video IDs can be entered as comma-separated values: videoid1, videoid2,...
ChannelStatistics	Shows the channel statistics for a video based on the channel ID. Channel IDs can be entered as comma-separated values: channelid1, channelid2,...
HomePageActivities	Shows the list of activities from the homepage of the authenticated user.
MyActivities	Shows the list of activities by the authenticated user.
ChannelActivities	Shows the activities for a channel, based on a channel ID.
VideoComments	Shows the comments for a video, based on the video ID.
ChannelComments	Shows the channel comments, based on a channel ID.
CommentResponses	Shows the comment responses, based on a channel ID.

To select and load data from a table, enter the required table parameters and click Preview data. Required parameters are marked with an asterisk (*). The table fields are displayed under the Data preview tab. You can select fields individually by selecting the box beside each field name. Select Insert script after you have made your selection.

Creating a connection and selecting data

Query parameters

The Uservideos, VideoSearch, and ChannelSearch tables allow you to you select data based on a search term or by using YouTube query parameters. To learn how to specify the YouTube query term with the search list documentation.

Search: list

Working with the YouTube API quota limits

Understanding Quota Limits

Reference - YouTube Developer documentation

You can refer to the YouTube Developer documentation to learn more about the requirements and restriction imposed by the YouTube Analytics and Reporting APIs.

YouTube Data API Overview

Troubleshooting

You receive an error message that you have reached the API rate limit

Possible cause

You have exceeded the API limits that are imposed on the Qlik Web Connectors by the YouTube Data API.

Proposed action

To reduce the impact of reaching the API rate limits, develop your app with the following in mind:

Extract only the data you need.
Reload one YouTube Data-based application at a time.
Ensure that loops in your script that make API calls will not result in infinite loops.

You experience reduced functionality or see an incorrect operation for some tables

Possible cause

There are several known issues which may cause reduced functionality:

The UserVideos table does not include parameters for publishedAfter or publishedBefore.
VideoSearch and ChannelSearch tables may return unexpected results if publishedAfter or publishedBefore parameters are used.
The HomePageActivities table does not include parameters for publishedAfter or publishedBefore.