YouTube Analytics

  • The code demonstrates how to generate a YouTube Analytics report for a specific channel.

  • It retrieves the user's channels, selects the first one, and sets a one-month date range for the report.

  • The report queries for views, likes, dislikes, and shares, broken down by day and sorted in descending order of date.

  • The resulting analytics response is then logged to the console.

Create report for a channel

function runYoutubeAnalyticsReport() {
  // Get the list of all channels.
  var myChannels = YouTube.Channels.list('id', {mine: true});

  // Pick the first available channel.
  var channel = myChannels.items[0];
  var channelId = channel.id;

  // Set the dates for report.
  var today = new Date();
  var oneMonthAgo = new Date();
  oneMonthAgo.setMonth(today.getMonth() - 1);

  var todayFormatted = Utilities.formatDate(today, 'UTC', 'yyyy-MM-dd');
  var oneMonthAgoFormatted = Utilities.formatDate(oneMonthAgo, 'UTC',
      'yyyy-MM-dd');

  // See https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports for
  // supported dimensions and metrics.
  var analyticsResponse = YouTubeAnalytics.Reports.query(
    'channel==' + channelId,
    oneMonthAgoFormatted,
    todayFormatted,
    'views,likes,dislikes,shares',
    {
      dimensions: 'day',
      sort: '-day'
    });
  console.log(analyticsResponse);
}