Every Monday at 8am
Weekly video stats in Google Sheets
Every Monday the agent adds a row per video to your sheet with last week's views, watch time, percentage viewed and likes.
YouTube integration: an AI agent for your channel data
Letaido's YouTube integration gives one AI agent your channel's analytics, videos, captions and comments, for reports and content work with 64 other apps.
Best YouTube integration jobs to start with
Reporting and content jobs, each checked step by step. Open one to watch it run.
Every Monday at 9am
Weekly YouTube digest in Slack
Every Monday the agent posts last week's views, watch time, net subscribers and top videos to Slack, compared with the week before.
Every morning at 8am
Viewer questions from comments in Notion
Every morning the agent reads new comments on your recent videos and adds real questions and video requests to a Notion database.
When you ask
Show notes and chapters in Google Docs
The agent reads the captions of a video on your channel and writes plain text show notes: a summary, chapter timestamps and tools you mention.
When you ask
Video descriptions from real search terms
The agent finds the YouTube search terms behind your most viewed videos and rewrites each description's opening lines to use them.
When you ask
Sponsor reply with current channel stats
The agent drafts a Gmail reply to a sponsorship email with your current subscribers, last 28 days of views and audience ages from YouTube.
YouTube integration options, compared
Five ways to connect YouTube, and where each one fits.
| Option | Set up by asking | Works across your apps | Runs on its own | No code | Reads channel analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Letaido AI agent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| YouTube Studio | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Zapier, Make and similar | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| YouTube Data and Analytics APIs | No | Partly | Yes | No | Yes |
| Community MCP servers | No | No | No | Partly | Partly |
Read the full comparison
| Option | How it works | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letaido AI agent | You describe the job. The agent reads your analytics, videos, captions and comments, edits video details, and uses 64 other apps in the same run. | Weekly reports, show notes from captions and replies that need your real numbers. | 65 apps, not thousands. YouTube jobs run on a schedule or when you ask, not the moment you upload. |
| YouTube Studio | YouTube's own dashboard for analytics, comments, subtitles and video details. | Checking one channel by hand. | Everything is manual, and exports are by hand. |
| Zapier, Make and similar | Workflows built from YouTube triggers, like a new video on a channel, and actions like uploading a video. | Fixed handoffs, such as posting each new video to Slack. | You build and fix one workflow per job. |
| YouTube Data and Analytics APIs | Developers call Google's APIs for videos, playlists, comments and owner analytics, with OAuth. | In-house tools with exact needs. | Needs developers, and each Google Cloud project has a daily quota. |
| Community MCP servers | Open source MCP servers built by others let an AI client such as Claude read YouTube data while you chat. | Trying YouTube data in a chat. | Built and run by others, so you run and trust the code yourself. |
How the YouTube integration works
Connect YouTube once. After that, you describe each job in plain English.
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1Connect YouTube
- 2Ask for a job in a chat, or start from an example above
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3Approve the first run
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once.
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4Watch the first run in the chat
Save it to run every Monday.
How a YouTube job starts
A schedule starts the job, or you do by asking.
- On a scheduleEvery Monday for the weekly digest, or every morning to collect viewer questions.
- When you askType the job in a chat, like show notes for a video, and it runs once.
Setup details
Connect YouTube
If the connect card shows Connect with YouTube, press it and approve Google's consent screen with the account that owns the channel.
Or use your own OAuth client
If the card only shows fields, paste the client id and secret of a Google Cloud web client with the YouTube Data API and YouTube Analytics API enabled, plus a refresh token. Set the consent screen to In production; tokens made while it is in Testing expire after 7 days.
Pick the channel
Reports cover the channel the signed in account owns. Analytics come back only for that channel.
Watch the first run
Letaido runs the job once in the chat. Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once. Then save it to repeat.
Every YouTube action the agent can take
57 actions in 10 groups, from analytics and videos to captions, comments and playlists.
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Frequently asked
How do I connect YouTube to Letaido? +
If the connect card shows Connect with YouTube, press it and approve with the account that owns the channel. Otherwise use your own Google Cloud OAuth client, with the consent screen In production; Testing tokens expire after 7 days.
Can it read another channel's analytics? +
No. YouTube only returns analytics to the channel owner who signed in. For other channels the agent can read public details such as video titles and view counts.
Can a new upload start a job? +
No. YouTube jobs run on a schedule, like every evening, or when you ask in a chat. A daily job can pick up the videos you published that day.
Does it use my YouTube API quota? +
With your own OAuth client, calls count against your Google Cloud project's daily quota. Caption downloads cost more than most calls, so a daily job over many videos adds up.
Will it change my videos? +
Only when a job asks for it. Its actions include editing video details, uploading and deleting videos. Of the jobs above, only the description job writes to YouTube; the rest only read it.
Is there a YouTube MCP server? +
There are community MCP servers, built by others, that you run yourself. Letaido is not an MCP server: it has its own YouTube connector and runs jobs on a schedule with 64 other apps.
Can ChatGPT read my YouTube analytics? +
With Letaido you don't need ChatGPT for it: Letaido is its own AI agent. Connect YouTube and ask in the chat, or save a weekly report to run on a schedule.
Give your YouTube channel an agent
Connect YouTube, then ask for a job like "Add weekly video stats to our Google Sheet". Leta gets it done on your schedule, or the moment you ask.
Get LetaidoRead channel and activity data4
Look up channel metadata, statistics, subscriber counts, and recent activity feeds for any channel or the connected account.
- Get channel
- List activities
- List channel sections
- List subscriptions
Manage channel branding and layout7
Update the connected channel's description and settings, add or remove home page sections, and set banner, watermark, and branding assets.
- Update channel
- Set channel banner
- Set watermark
- Unset watermark
- Create channel section
- Update channel section
- Delete channel section
Upload and manage videos9
Upload new videos, update metadata like title and tags, set custom thumbnails, rate videos, and permanently delete videos.
- Insert video
- Update video
- Set thumbnail
- Get video
- Get video stats
- Get video rating
- Rate video
- Delete video
- Report video abuse
Manage playlists11
Create, update, and delete playlists, manage their videos and ordering, and set or remove custom cover images.
- Create playlist
- Update playlist
- Delete playlist
- List playlists
- Add playlist item
- Update playlist item
- Delete playlist item
- List playlist items
- Add playlist image
- Delete playlist image
- List playlist images
Manage captions5
List, download, upload, update, and delete caption tracks on the connected channel's videos.
- List captions
- Download caption
- Upload caption
- Update caption
- Delete caption
Manage comments7
Post, reply to, edit, moderate, and delete comments on videos associated with the connected account.
- Post comment
- Reply to comment
- Update comment
- Delete comment
- List comments
- List comment replies
- Moderate comments
Manage subscriptions2
Subscribe or unsubscribe the connected account to channels and list existing subscriptions or subscribers.
- Subscribe
- Unsubscribe
Search YouTube2
Search for videos and channels by keyword with optional filters for date, channel, and ordering.
- Search videos
- Search channels
Read video and channel analytics6
Pull views, watch time, top videos, traffic sources, audience retention, and demographic breakdowns for the connected channel or specific videos.
- Video analytics
- Top videos
- Traffic sources
- Audience retention
- Demographics
- Query analytics
Admin and advanced4
Retrieve reference data for languages, regions, video categories, and abuse report reasons used by other actions.
- List languages
- List regions
- List video categories
- List abuse report reasons