New Item in YouTube Playlist
Triggers when a new item is added to a YouTube playlist.
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YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment
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New Playlist in YouTube Channel
Triggers when a new playlist is added to a YouTube channel.
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New YouTube Activity
Triggers when a new activity is detected on a YouTube channel.
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New YouTube Channel Subscription
Triggers when a new channel is subscribed.
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Add Video to Playlist
Tool to add a video to a playlist by inserting a playlist item. Use when organizing videos into playlists or building curated collections.
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Bind Live Broadcast
Bind an owned live broadcast to a live stream, or unbind it when streamId is omitted.
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Create Live Broadcast
Create and schedule a live broadcast owned by the connected YouTube channel.
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Create Playlist
Tool to create a new YouTube playlist on the authenticated user's channel. Use when organizing videos into collections or building curated playlists.
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Create YouTube Live Stream
Create a YouTube live-stream ingestion resource and return its connection settings.
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Delete caption track
Permanently deletes an owned caption track after explicit confirmation with `confirmDelete: true`.
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Delete Channel Section
Deletes a YouTube channel section by ID, subject to permission. The result reports whether deletion succeeded; HTTP 400, 403, and 404 are returned as structured failures.
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Delete Comment
Deletes a YouTube comment by ID, subject to authorization. The result reports whether deletion succeeded; HTTP 400, 403, and 404 are returned as structured failures.
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Delete Live Broadcast
Permanently delete an owned YouTube live broadcast after confirmation.
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Delete Playlist
Delete a YouTube playlist owned by the authenticated user or channel after explicit confirmation. The result reports whether deletion succeeded; certain API errors are returned as structured failure results.
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Delete Playlist Item
Tool to delete a playlist item (remove a video from a playlist). Use when removing specific videos from playlists.
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Delete Video
Tool to delete a YouTube video owned by the authenticated user/channel. Use when you need to permanently remove a video from YouTube. Requires explicit confirmation via `confirmDelete: true` to prevent accidental deletions. The video must exist and be owned by the authenticated channel.
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Download YouTube caption track
Downloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as text. Note: This action requires you to own the video (YouTube Data API v3 restriction). Non-owned videos will return 403 Forbidden errors, including many auto-generated caption tracks.
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Get Channel Activities
Gets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.
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Get channel ID by handle
Retrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.
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Get Channel Statistics
Gets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts. Channels can be identified using their ID, handle (e.g., @Google), or username.
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Get Playlists by ID
Retrieves one or more playlists by their YouTube playlist IDs.
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Get Video Rating
Retrieves the ratings that the authorized user gave to a list of specified videos. Use when you need to check if a user has liked or disliked specific videos.
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Insert Channel Section
Tool to create a new channel section for the authenticated user's YouTube channel. Use when organizing channel content into sections like featured playlists, recent uploads, or featured channels.
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Insert Comment Reply
Tool to create a reply to an existing YouTube comment. Use when responding to user comments or engaging in conversations on videos.
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List captions
Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video. Returns an empty items list if no captions are available. Raises ExecutionFailed if the video ID is invalid or not found.
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List Channel Sections
Tool to retrieve channel sections from YouTube. Use when you need to get the layout sections of a channel's homepage. Channel sections organize content into categories like playlists, uploads, or featured channels.
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List channel videos
Lists videos from a YouTube channel identified by channel ID, handle, supported channel URL, or the authenticated user's channel. Results are paginated, with 1–50 videos per page. An empty result can mean the channel ID was not found or that no uploads playlist was available.
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List Channels
Lists YouTube channels by ID, handle, username, or ownership status, returning channel metadata, statistics, and content details. If multiple filters are supplied, only the first in ID, handle, username, owned, then managed order is used.
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List Comment Threads
Tool to retrieve comment threads from YouTube videos or channels matching API request parameters. Use when you need to fetch comments with filtering by video, channel, or specific thread IDs.
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List Comment Threads (Deprecated)
DEPRECATED: Use YOUTUBE_LIST_COMMENT_THREADS2 instead. List comment threads from YouTube videos or channels for qualitative analysis and reporting. Returns top-level comments with optional replies (up to 5 per thread). Use the 'videoId' parameter to retrieve comments on a specific video (most common use case).
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List Comments
List individual YouTube comments by comment ID or replies to a top-level comment by parent ID. Results are paginated when listing replies and may include author, text, timestamps, and engagement details.
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List I18n Languages
Returns a list of application languages that the YouTube website supports. Use this when you need to retrieve all available language options for YouTube's interface or to localize content.
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List I18n Regions
Tool to retrieve a list of content regions that the YouTube website supports. Returns region codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and localized region names. Use when you need to identify available geographic regions for content filtering or display.
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List Live Broadcasts
List the connected channel's live broadcasts by lifecycle status, ID, or ownership.
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List Live Chat Messages
Tool to list live chat messages for a specific chat. Use for monitoring live chat during broadcasts or retrieving chat history. Returns messages with author details, timestamps, and message types (text, Super Chat, moderation events).
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List Live Streams
Lists live streams owned by the connected channel or selected by stream ID.
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List Most Popular Videos
Tool to list the current most-popular (charts/trending) YouTube videos for a region and/or category via videos.list(chart=mostPopular). Use when you need to retrieve YouTube's official trending or most popular videos, not keyword-search approximations.
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List Playlist Images
Retrieves playlist images by playlist ID or playlist image IDs, including custom playlist thumbnails.
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List Playlist Items
Tool to list videos in a playlist, with pagination support. Use when walking through a channel's uploads playlist to enumerate all videos.
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List Rated Videos
List up to the 1,000 most recent videos liked or disliked by the authenticated YouTube user.
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List Super Chat Events
Lists Super Chat events for a channel, showing supporter purchases during live streams. Returns Super Chat and Super Sticker events from the past 30 days. Use to track and acknowledge supporter contributions.
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List user playlists
Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.
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List user subscriptions
Retrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.
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List Video Abuse Report Reasons
Tool to retrieve a list of abuse report reasons that can be used to report abusive videos on YouTube. Use when you need to display available reporting categories or before calling videos.reportAbuse. Returns localized reason labels and optional secondary categorizations.
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List Video Categories
Tool to list YouTube video categories that can be associated with videos. Use when you need to retrieve available video categories for a specific region or get details about specific category IDs.
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List YouTube Job Reports
List one page of generated job-report metadata and return a next-page token.
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List YouTube Report Types
List report types available for YouTube bulk reporting jobs.
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List YouTube Reporting Jobs
List one page of bulk-report jobs and return a token for the next page.
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Mark Comment as Spam
Tool to mark one or more YouTube comments as spam. Use when moderating comments to flag spam content. Note: This endpoint is deprecated but still functional according to YouTube API documentation.
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Multipart upload video
Uploads a video to YouTube using multipart upload in a single request. Use when you want to upload both metadata and video file together. This action uploads the video file and metadata in one request, unlike resumable upload which requires two steps.
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Post Comment on Video
Tool to post a new top-level comment on a YouTube video. Use when creating comments to engage with video content or respond to user requests.
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Query YouTube Analytics
Query a channel or content owner's YouTube Analytics result table.
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Rate Video
Tool to add a like or dislike rating to a YouTube video, or remove an existing rating. Use when you need to rate videos on behalf of the authenticated user.
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Report Video for Abuse
Tool to report a YouTube video for containing abusive content. Use when you need to flag videos that violate YouTube's community guidelines or contain harmful content.
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Search YouTube
Searches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning structured search results.
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Set Comment Moderation Status
Tool to set the moderation status of one or more YouTube comments. Use when moderating comments to hold for review, publish, or reject them. Optionally ban the comment author when rejecting.
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Subscribe to channel
Subscribes the authenticated user to a YouTube channel by channel ID. An existing subscription is treated as success, but its actual subscription details may not be available in the result.
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Transition Live Broadcast
Transition an owned live broadcast with the required active bound stream.
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Unsubscribe from channel
Tool to unsubscribe the authenticated user from a YouTube channel by deleting a subscription. Use when you need to remove an existing subscription. The subscription ID can be obtained from the `YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_SUBSCRIPTIONS` tool.
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Update caption track
Updates a YouTube caption track's metadata such as name, language, or draft status. Use this to modify existing caption track properties without uploading new caption content. Note: Only properties specified in the snippet will be updated; unspecified properties retain their current values.
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Update channel
Updates a channel's metadata including branding settings and localizations. Only brandingSettings, invideoPromotion, and localizations properties can be updated. Requires the channel to be owned by the authenticated user.
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Update Channel Section
Tool to update an existing YouTube channel section by ID. Use when modifying section properties like title, position, or featured content.
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Update Comment
Tool to modify the text of an existing YouTube comment. Use when updating or correcting a previously posted comment.
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Update Playlist
Tool to modify an existing YouTube playlist's metadata (title, description, privacy status). Use when updating playlist information for the authenticated user's channel.
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Update Playlist Item
Tool to modify a playlist item's properties such as position or note. Use when reordering videos in a playlist or updating item metadata.
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Update thumbnail
Sets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from a URL. Requirements: - The authenticated user must own the video or have permission to edit it - The YouTube channel must be verified (phone verification required) to upload custom thumbnails - Image must be JPG, PNG, or GIF; under 2MB; recommended 1280x720 resolution (16:9 aspect ratio)
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Update video
Updates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existing tags.
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Upload caption media
Replaces the media bytes of an existing YouTube caption track.
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Upload caption track
Creates a caption track for an owned video and uploads its caption media.
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Upload channel banner
Upload banner media and return its URL without applying it to the channel. Apply the returned URL with a channels.update request that sets brandingSettings.image.bannerExternalUrl.
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Upload video
Uploads a video file to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.
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Video Details Batch
Retrieves multiple YouTube video resource parts in a single batch call. Use when you need cohort-level metrics for many videos to reduce quota usage and latency.
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How the YouTube integration works
The YouTube integration connects your Dench AI CRM directly to YouTube, so agents can read and act on your YouTube data as part of everyday work — answering questions in chat, keeping your CRM in sync, and running automations without anyone copying data between tools.
68 actions are available for agents to invoke on your behalf, and 4 triggers can start a Dench automation the moment something changes in YouTube. Every call runs through YouTube's own authorization, scoped to the account you connect.
Set up YouTube in Dench
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Sign in to your Dench workspace and open Integrations.
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Find YouTube and click Connect — you'll authorize access through YouTube's own sign-in flow. No API keys or code required.
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Ask an agent to use YouTube in chat, or wire a YouTube trigger into an automation.
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Manage or disconnect the connection any time from workspace settings.
Frequently asked questions
How does the YouTube integration work with Dench?
The Dench YouTube integration connects your AI CRM to YouTube, so AI agents can work with your YouTube data as part of chats, automations, and CRM workflows. You connect your account once, and every agent in your workspace can use it — governed by your workspace permissions.
What actions can AI agents perform with YouTube via Dench?
The YouTube integration currently exposes 68 actions, including Add Video to Playlist, Bind Live Broadcast, Create Live Broadcast, Create Playlist, Create YouTube Live Stream, and Delete caption track. Agents invoke them on your behalf from chat or from automations.
Can Dench react to events in YouTube automatically?
Yes. The YouTube integration provides 4 triggers — such as New Item in YouTube Playlist, New Playlist in YouTube Channel, New YouTube Activity, and New YouTube Channel Subscription — that can start a Dench automation the moment something happens in YouTube.
Do I need to write code to connect YouTube to Dench?
No. You connect YouTube from your Dench workspace using YouTube's own sign-in and authorization flow — no API keys to copy, no glue code to maintain.
Is the YouTube integration secure?
Connections are authorized through YouTube's own authentication flow, and Dench stores only the authorization needed to act on your behalf. You can review and disconnect the YouTube connection from your workspace settings at any time.