# Youtube

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/youtube/  
**Website:** https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3  
**APIs profiled:** 36

YouTube APIs provide programmatic access to YouTube data including videos, playlists, channels, user interactions, live streaming, analytics, captions, and embedded player controls.

## Kin Score — 62.8 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 80.3 |
| Governance | 41.7 |
| Contract Governance | 41.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (36)

- **Youtube Channel Sections API** — Manages sections that a channel has chosen to feature on its channel page, including inserting, updating, and deleting channel sections.
- **Youtube Channel Banners API** — Enables uploading a new banner image to a YouTube channel, returning the URL that identifies the uploaded image for use with the channels.update method.
- **Youtube Members API** — Provides access to channel membership data, allowing channel owners to retrieve a list of paying members who support the channel in exchange for exclusive benefits.
- **Youtube Memberships Levels API** — Provides information about membership pricing tiers that a channel has set up, allowing retrieval of the levels that members can subscribe to.
- **Youtube Thumbnails API** — Manages custom video thumbnail images, enabling upload of a custom thumbnail image for a video that the authenticated user owns.
- **Youtube Watermarks API** — Manages images that display in the corner of a player during playback of a channel's videos, supporting upload and deletion of channel watermarks.
- **Youtube Video Abuse Report Reasons API** — Retrieves a list of reasons that can be used to report abusive videos, supporting programmatic submission of video abuse reports.
- **YouTube IFrame Player API** — Enables embedding a YouTube video player on websites and controlling playback through JavaScript. The API supports queuing and playing videos, adjusting volume, retrieving video...
- **YouTube Subscribe Button** — Provides an embeddable subscribe button that website owners can configure and add to their pages, enabling one-click channel subscriptions for visitors without leaving the page.
- **Youtube Playlist Images API** — Manages thumbnail images associated with YouTube playlists, supporting retrieval, insertion, update, and deletion of custom playlist thumbnail images.
- **YouTube Content ID API** — Enables YouTube content partners to interact with the rights management system, allowing creation and management of assets, content references, ownership data, claims, and polic...
- **YouTube oEmbed API** — Provides an oEmbed-compliant endpoint that returns embed code and metadata for YouTube videos in JSON or XML format, enabling easy embedding of YouTube content on external websi...
- **Youtube Analytics Groups API** — Operations for managing analytics group definitions
- **Youtube Analytics Reports API** — Operations for retrieving YouTube Analytics reports and metrics
- **Youtube Captions API** — Operations related to YouTube video caption tracks
- **Youtube Channels API** — Operations related to YouTube channel resources
- **Youtube Comments API** — Operations related to individual YouTube comments
- **Youtube CommentThreads API** — Operations related to YouTube comment threads
- **Youtube Group Items API** — Operations for managing items within analytics groups
- **Youtube GroupItems API** — Operations for managing items within YouTube Analytics groups
- **Youtube Groups API** — Operations for managing YouTube Analytics groups
- **Youtube I18n API** — Operations related to internationalization resources
- **Youtube Jobs API** — Operations for managing YouTube reporting jobs
- **Youtube LiveBroadcasts API** — Operations for managing YouTube live broadcast events
- **Youtube LiveChatMessages API** — Operations for managing messages in YouTube live chat
- **Youtube LiveChatModerators API** — Operations for managing moderators in YouTube live chat
- **Youtube LiveStreams API** — Operations for managing YouTube live video streams
- **Youtube Playlist Items API** — Operations for managing items within playlists
- **Youtube PlaylistItems API** — Operations related to items within YouTube playlists
- **Youtube Playlists API** — Operations related to YouTube playlist resources
- **Youtube Reports API** — Operations for querying YouTube Analytics report data
- **Youtube ReportTypes API** — Operations for listing available report types
- **Youtube Search API** — Operations for searching YouTube content
- **Youtube Subscriptions API** — Operations related to YouTube channel subscriptions
- **Youtube VideoCategories API** — Operations related to YouTube video categories
- **Youtube Videos API** — Operations related to YouTube video resources

## MCP servers (1)

- **Youtube MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Youtube Agentic Access** — 91 operations · 55 acting

## Security (3)

- **Youtube Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Youtube Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Youtube Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Youtube Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (10)

- **Video Publishing Platform** — Build automated video upload and management workflows for content creators and media companies.
- **Social Media Dashboard** — Aggregate YouTube analytics with other social platforms for unified performance monitoring.
- **Content Moderation** — Automate comment moderation and abuse reporting for community management at scale.
- **Live Event Management** — Schedule and manage live streaming events with real-time chat and audience interaction.
- **Education Platform** — Organize educational video content into playlists with searchable course catalogs.
- **Digital Rights Management** — Track and manage content ownership, claims, and monetization policies using Content ID.
- **Video Search Application** — Build custom video search experiences with filters for topics, dates, and regions.
- **Analytics Dashboard** — Create custom reporting dashboards with channel and video performance metrics.
- **Accessibility Tools** — Manage captions and translations to improve video accessibility across languages.
- **Embedded Video Experience** — Create branded video experiences with customized embedded players on external websites.

## Tags

Google, Media, Social, Streaming, Video, Videos

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/youtube/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.