# YouTube AI agent for Slack & Microsoft Teams Viktor is an AI employee that connects to YouTube in one click via OAuth and helps you publish videos or podcast episodes and track how they perform, running 51 YouTube actions for you like Rate Video, Delete Video, and Update video. Ask in plain English in Slack or Microsoft Teams; Viktor does the work in YouTube and reports back. Setup takes about two minutes. - Tool: YouTube - Category: Marketing - Connection: One-click OAuth - Actions available: 51 - Works from: Slack and Microsoft Teams - Page: https://viktor.com/integrations/youtube ## What can you ask Viktor to do in YouTube? - "Upload this video to YouTube and fill in the title and description from this outline." - "Pull this month's viewing stats from YouTube and summarize what performed best." - "Watch YouTube for new comments on our latest episode and draft replies for me." - "Post a recap of our YouTube publishing schedule to this channel every Monday." ## What can Viktor do in YouTube? (51 actions) - **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 must exist and be owned by the authenticated channel. - **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 Channels** - Lists YouTube channels by ID, handle, username, or ownership status, returning detailed channel information including metadata, statistics, and content details. Use this action when you need to retrieve comprehensive channel information by channel ID, handle (e.g., @username), or to list channels owned by or managed by the authenticated user. For finding channels by search query, use the search action instead. - **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 the channel resource via the Channels API and extracting the playlist ID from contentDetails.relatedPlaylists.uploads field. If the uploads playlist returns a 404 error (which can happen due to a known YouTube API bug where the returned playlist ID doesn't actually exist), the action automatically falls back to the search.list endpoint to retrieve channel videos. Note that the search fallback has higher quota cost (100 units vs 1 unit) and is limited to 500 results. If a channel exists but has no uploads playlist (e.g., brand accounts, channels with all videos deleted, or channels that haven't uploaded any public content), an empty result set is returned instead of an error. - **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 (Deprecated)** - DEPRECATED: Use YOUTUBELISTCOMMENTTHREADS2 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). - **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 Most Popular Videos** - DEPRECATED: Use YOUTUBEUPDATEVIDEO instead. 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. - **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 optional secondary categorizations. - **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 403 Forbidden errors, including many auto-generated caption tracks. - **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. - **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. - **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 YOUTUBELISTUSERSUBSCRIPTIONS 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 updated; unspecified properties retain their current values. - **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 upload custom thumbnails - Image must be JPG, PNG, or GIF; under 2MB; recommended 1280x720 resolution (16:9 aspect ratio). - **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 file to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format. ## How does Viktor work with YouTube? 1. Add Viktor to Slack or Microsoft Teams. 2. Connect YouTube with one-click OAuth - Viktor handles authentication. 3. Ask in plain English. Viktor runs the YouTube actions, chains them with your other tools when needed, and reports back. Sensitive actions wait for your approval. ## What is a YouTube AI agent? A YouTube AI agent is an AI that connects to your YouTube account and completes work in it - it doesn't just answer questions about YouTube, it takes the actions. Viktor is that agent: an AI employee that works in YouTube on your behalf and delivers the finished result in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Unlike workflow builders such as Zapier or Make, there is nothing to configure - no triggers to map, no workflows to maintain. You describe the outcome in plain English, and Viktor picks the right YouTube actions, chains them with the other 3,200+ tools it connects to, and asks for approval before anything sensitive runs. ### About YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment ## Security and permissions - One-click OAuth - Viktor never sees your password, and you can revoke access at any time. - Review-first approvals: sensitive YouTube actions wait for your sign-off before they run. - Isolated compute per team, encrypted in transit and at rest - and your data is never used to train models. - SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, with Type 2 and ISO 27001 in progress. ## FAQ ### Does Viktor integrate with YouTube? Yes. YouTube is one of the 3,200+ tools Viktor connects to, via a managed connector. Once connected, anyone on your team can put Viktor to work in YouTube from Slack or Microsoft Teams - no workflow builder, no code. ### How do I connect YouTube to Viktor? Ask Viktor in Slack or Microsoft Teams to connect YouTube, then approve the one-click OAuth prompt. Viktor never sees your password, handles authentication itself, and starts working right away. Setup takes about two minutes, and you can revoke access at any time. ### What can Viktor do in YouTube? Viktor can run 51 YouTube actions, including Rate Video, Delete Video, and Update video - and chain them with other tools in a single request. In practice that means Viktor helps you publish videos or podcast episodes and track how they perform. If a task spans several actions, Viktor plans the sequence itself and reports back when the work is done. ### Do I need to build workflows to automate YouTube? No. Viktor isn't a workflow builder - there are no triggers to map and no workflows to maintain. You ask for the outcome in plain English in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and Viktor decides which YouTube actions to take, runs them, and reports back. ### Is my YouTube data secure with Viktor? Yes. Viktor connects to YouTube in one click via OAuth, runs in an isolated environment per team, and never trains models on your data. Sensitive actions wait for your approval, and you can revoke access at any time. Viktor is SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, with Type 2 and ISO 27001 in progress. ### How much does the YouTube integration cost? Nothing extra - every integration, including YouTube, is available on every plan. You can start free with up to $100 in credits, no credit card required; paid plans start at $50/month. ### Can Viktor use YouTube together with my other tools? Yes - that's the point. Viktor connects to 3,200+ tools and works across them in a single run: it can pull data from YouTube, cross-reference it with another tool - for example Slack or Gmail, and deliver the finished result in Slack or Microsoft Teams. ## Viktor uses YouTube together with - [Slack](https://viktor.com/integrations/slack) - [Gmail](https://viktor.com/integrations/gmail) - [Google Sheets](https://viktor.com/integrations/google-sheets) - [HubSpot](https://viktor.com/integrations/hubspot) - [Notion](https://viktor.com/integrations/notion) - [Salesforce](https://viktor.com/integrations/salesforce) ## More Marketing integrations - [Meta Ads](https://viktor.com/integrations/meta-ads) - [Google Ads](https://viktor.com/integrations/google-ads) - [Customer.io](https://viktor.com/integrations/customer-io) - [Instagram](https://viktor.com/integrations/instagram) - [Zendesk](https://viktor.com/integrations/zendesk) - [Mailchimp](https://viktor.com/integrations/mailchimp) - [Add to Calendar PRO](https://viktor.com/integrations/add-to-calendar-pro) - [LinkedIn](https://viktor.com/integrations/linkedin) ## Get started Viktor is free to start - up to $100 in credits, no credit card required. 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