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YouTube integration

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube

Actions
9
Triggers
1
Auth
OAuth 2.0
License
MIT, open source
Updated
October 2026

About the YouTube integration

Add the YouTube piece to a flow, connect your account once, and the rest of the builder can read from it and write to it. Because the piece is open source you can run it on our cloud or self-host it, and combine YouTube with 760+ other apps in the same flow.

Triggers

Start a flow the moment something happens in YouTube

Each trigger below can start a flow on its own, either instantly or on a schedule.

  • New Video In Channel

    Runs when a new video is added to a YouTube channel.

    1 field

Actions

Everything Activepieces can do in YouTube

Drop any of these into a flow and fill in the fields. No code is required.

  • Download Caption

    Download a caption track's text. Works only on videos you own.

    4 fields

  • List Captions

    List a video's caption tracks, with the IDs Download Caption needs.

    3 fields

  • Search

    Search YouTube for videos, channels or playlists.

    30 fields

  • List Playlist Items

    List the videos in a playlist, or fetch specific playlist items.

    5 fields

  • Get Video

    Retrieve a video by ID, including its statistics and duration.

    1 field

  • Get Channel

    Get a channel's details, including subscriber and view counts.

    2 fields

  • List Playlists

    List the playlists on a channel.

    3 fields

  • List Comments

    List the top-level comment threads on a video.

    4 fields

  • Custom API Call

    Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint

    10 fields

Use YouTube in a flow

Connect YouTube once and every trigger and action above is yours to drop into the builder, alongside 760+ other apps. Free to start, on our cloud or your own servers.

YouTube, answered.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the YouTube piece is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

Add the YouTube piece to a flow, then authenticate with OAuth 2.0. Once connected, its 1 trigger and 9 actions are available anywhere in the builder.

"New Video In Channel" can start a flow that runs "Download Caption", and you can chain YouTube together with any of 760+ other apps and AI steps in between.

Yes. Activepieces is fully self-hostable, so you can run the YouTube piece on your own infrastructure with your connections and your data staying in your environment.

Yes. Every piece you connect can be exposed over one Activepieces MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client can call YouTube actions as tools.