GroupItems: insert

Creates a group item.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://youtubeanalytics.googleapis.com/v2/groupItems

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scopes
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly	View YouTube Analytics reports for your YouTube content. This scope provides access to user activity metrics, like view counts and rating counts.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics-monetary.readonly	View YouTube Analytics monetary reports for your YouTube content. This scope provides access to user activity metrics and to estimated revenue and ad performance metrics.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube	Manage your YouTube account. In the YouTube Analytics API, channel owners use this scope to manage YouTube Analytics groups and group items.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner	View and manage YouTube assets and associated content on YouTube. In the YouTube Analytics API, content owners use this scope to manage YouTube Analytics groups and group items.

Parameters

The table below lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.

Parameters
Optional parameters
`onBehalfOfContentOwner`	`string` This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. The `onBehalfOfContentOwner` parameter indicates that the request's authorization credentials identify a YouTube user who is acting on behalf of the content owner specified in the parameter value. It allows content owners to authenticate once and get access to all their video and channel data, without having to provide authentication credentials for each individual channel. The account that the user authenticates with must be linked to the specified YouTube content owner.

Request body

Provide a groupItem resource in the request body. For that resource, you must specify a value for the following properties.

groupId
resource.id

Response

If the item is successfully inserted, this method returns a groupItem resource in the response body.

If the item specified in the request had already been included in the group before the request was made, this method returns an HTTP 204 response code (No Content).

Errors

The table below identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.

Error type	Error detail	Description
`forbidden (403)`	`groupContainsMaximumNumberOfItems`	The group already contains the maximum allowed number of items.

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