How do I connect Youtube to Operator?

You authorize Youtube once from your Operator dashboard. Operator holds the connection and refreshes the access token for you, so your agent keeps working with Youtube without you signing in again.

What can my agent do with Youtube?

Your agent can run 47 Youtube actions on its own, including add video to playlist, insert channel section, insert comment reply. You describe the outcome you want in plain language and it picks the right ones, checking its work as it goes.

Do I need to write code or manage Youtube API keys?

No code and no API keys. You authorize Youtube through a normal sign in and Operator handles the connection, so there is nothing to wire up or host.

Can my agent use Youtube together with my other apps?

Yes. The same agent reaches every app you connect, so it can move between Youtube and tools like Elevenlabs, Spotify, Amara in one job, reading from one and acting in another without you wiring anything between them.

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Connect Youtube to OpenClaw on Operator.io

YouTube is a leading video-sharing platform for uploading, streaming, and discovering content. It empowers creators and businesses to reach global audiences and monetize their work.

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Automate Youtube with AI

Operator runs your personal agent on OpenClaw, the open source agent framework, and points it straight at Youtube. You message the agent on Telegram or Discord, tell it what you need in plain language, and it operates Youtube on its own, running actions like add video to playlist, insert channel section, insert comment reply.

Your agent reaches Youtube directly or through connectors like Composio MCP and Pipedream MCP, which handle the sign in and token refresh for you, so there is nothing to wire up and no API keys to paste.

What your agent can do with Youtube

Your agent can call any of these Youtube actions by name as part of a larger task. Ask for the outcome you want and it picks the right ones.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Delete Channel Section

Tool to delete a YouTube channel section. Use when you need to remove a channel section from a channel. The channel section must exist and the authenticated user must have permission to delete it.

Delete Comment

Tool to delete a YouTube comment owned by the authenticated user or channel. Use when you need to remove a comment from a video. The comment must exist and be owned by the authenticated channel.

Delete Playlist

Tool to delete a YouTube playlist owned by the authenticated user/channel. Use when you need to permanently remove a playlist from YouTube. Requires explicit confirmation via `confirmDelete: true` to prevent accidental deletions.

Delete Playlist Item

Tool to delete a playlist item (remove a video from a playlist). Use when removing specific videos from playlists.

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 mus...

Get Channel Activities

Gets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.

Get channel ID by handle

Retrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

List channel videos

Lists videos from a specified YouTube channel. This action primarily uses the playlistItems.list endpoint with the channel's uploads playlist, which is the recommended approach by YouTube. The uploads playlist ID is obtained by fetching...

List Comments

List individual comments from YouTube videos. Returns comment details including author, text, timestamps, and engagement metrics. Use 'id' parameter to retrieve specific comments or 'parentId' to retrieve all replies to a top-level comment.

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.

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.

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.

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).

List Playlist Images

Tool to retrieve playlist images associated with a specific playlist. Use when fetching custom thumbnail images for playlists.

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.

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.

List user playlists

Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.

List user subscriptions

Retrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.

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 o...

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.

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 4...

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 requi...

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.

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.

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.

Search YouTube

Searches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw API response.

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.

Subscribe to channel

Subscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique `channelId` which must be valid and existing.

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.

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 update...

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.

Update Channel Section

Tool to update an existing YouTube channel section by ID. Use when modifying section properties like title, position, or featured content.

Update Comment

Tool to modify the text of an existing YouTube comment. Use when updating or correcting a previously posted comment.

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.

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.

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 uplo...

Update video

Updates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existing tags.

Upload video

Uploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.

How to connect Youtube

You authorize Youtube once from your dashboard. Operator holds the connection and refreshes the access tokens on its own, so your agent keeps working with Youtube without you signing in again. The same setup unlocks every other app your agent can reach, so you only do it once.

When you are ready, the get started guide walks through standing up your OpenClaw agent.

Common questions about Youtube

How do I connect Youtube to Operator?: You authorize Youtube once from your Operator dashboard. Operator holds the connection and refreshes the access token for you, so your agent keeps working with Youtube without you signing in again.
What can my agent do with Youtube?: Your agent can run 47 Youtube actions on its own, including add video to playlist, insert channel section, insert comment reply. You describe the outcome you want in plain language and it picks the right ones, checking its work as it goes.
Do I need to write code or manage Youtube API keys?: No code and no API keys. You authorize Youtube through a normal sign in and Operator handles the connection, so there is nothing to wire up or host.
Can my agent use Youtube together with my other apps?: Yes. The same agent reaches every app you connect, so it can move between Youtube and tools like Elevenlabs, Spotify, Amara in one job, reading from one and acting in another without you wiring anything between them.