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YouTube Reporting Enterprise Connector

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Amy Etheridge
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You can use Domo's YouTube Reporting Enterprise connector to retrieve information about YouTube assets, videos, and channels. To learn more about the YouTube API, visit their page (https://developers.google.com/youtube/).

Note: There are currently 3 YouTube connectors available in Domo. The difference between these may be difficult to understand, so here is an explanation of each: 

  • YouTube Reporting. This is our entry-level YouTube connector. It requires only a Google username and password to authenticate. Most Domo users should use this connector to retrieve YouTube data.

  • YouTube Reporting Enterprise. This is the enterprise version of the YouTube Reporting connector. This report has a few additional reports and requires you to enter a Google Client ID and Client Secret in addition to a basic Google username and password.

  • YouTube Enterprise Advanced. This is Domo's most advanced YouTube connector. (This is the only version of the YouTube Enterprise connector; there is no connector simply called "YouTube Enterprise.") It requires a Google Client ID and Client Secret as well as a Google username and password. It provides more reports and options than the other YouTube connectors but is also more complicated and much more difficult to configure. This connector is recommended for advanced users only. 

The YouTube Reporting Enterprise connector is a "Cloud App" connector, meaning it retrieves data stored in the cloud. In the Data Center, you can access the connector page for this and other Cloud App connectors by clicking Cloud App in the toolbar at the top of the window.

You connect to your YouTube Reporting Enterprise account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the YouTube Reporting Enterprise connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Best practices

When a Report is created a job is generated and takes 24 -72 hours before returning data. After you schedule a reporting job, YouTube generates reports from that day forward and also generates reports covering the 180-day period prior to the time the job was scheduled. 

Any date prior to the Job creation date for a Report Type is considered historical. YouTube will generate up to 60 days of historical data. Historical reports are posted as soon as they are available and in no particular order. It takes roughly one month for all of the historical data to be posted for a job. So, a month after scheduling a reporting job, you will have access to around two months of data.

Prerequisites

To connect to your YouTube account and create a DataSet, you must have the following:

  • A Google Client ID.

  • A Google Client Secret.

  • A Google username and password.

For step-by-step instructions on obtaining a Client ID and Client Secret, see https://developers.google.com/consol...neratingoauth2.

Note: For multiple YouTube Reporting Enterprise accounts in Domo, you must click the Google+ API checkbox in the Google API when creating the Client ID and Client Secret. If the Google+ API box is not checked, then any new YouTube Reporting Enterprise account in Domo will override the current credentials.

You must also enable the Google People API to properly configure this connector. For more information about this API, see https://developers.google.com/people/?hl=en_US. 

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Connecting to your YouTube Reporting Enterprise accountEdit section

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details  panes in the YouTube Reporting Enterprise Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Credentials pane

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your YouTube account. For information about obtaining these credentials, see "Prerequisites," above.

The following table describes what is needed for each field:  

Field

Description

Client ID

Enter your Google Client ID.

Client Secret

Enter your Google Client Secret.

After you have entered valid credentials, you are taken to Google's OAuth page where you are prompted to enter your Google username and password. Once you have successfully authenticated, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new YouTube Reporting Enterprise DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

Details paneEdit section

This pane contains a primary menu from which you can select a report, along with various other menus and fields in which you can configure your selected report.

Menu

Description

Report

Select the desired YouTube Reporting Enterprise report. Different reports are available depending on the API type you choose.

Asset Names

Returns the list of all assets.
Content Owner ID is required for this report.

Available Reports

Returns the list of available reports based on report type.

Channel Details and Statistics

Returns content details, snippets, and statistics data for the authenticated channel.

Jobs

Lists reporting jobs that have been scheduled for a channel or content owner.

Other Video Details and Statistics

Returns content details, snippets, and statistics data for the specified channel IDs.

Predefined Report Types

Returns predefined Report types that the channel or content owner can retrieve.

Public Channel Information

Returns public information of channels entered.

Video and Channel Names

Returns the list of video and channel names.

Call on Behalf of Content Owner

Select Yes if you are planning to retrieve a predefined report for another user (whose ID you will enter in the Content Owner ID field). Select No if you are the content owner for the report you plan to pull.

Note: You must have content owner access and the Content ID API enabled in the developers console application to do this. 

Content Owner ID

Enter the content owner ID for the user with content you want to pull. If you do not specify a value for the parameter, the API server assumes the request is being made for your own channel. 

To find your content owner ID, you must be a member of an MCN (Multi-Channel Network). For more information, see https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en.

To find your content owner ID, do the following:

  1. Log into YouTube.

  2. Click your profile picture in the top right.

  3. Select Studio in the dropdown menu.

  4. Copy the portion of the page URL following o=.

For example, if the page URL was https://www.youtube.com/dashboard?o=abc123_qrs_654, the content owner ID would be abc123_qrs_654. 

Note: You must have content owner access and the Content ID API enabled in the developers console application to do this. 

Preserve Column Names

Specify whether you want column names in your DataSet to be preserved when a report is changed. The best practice is to set this to True so cards do not break if the data is changed. 

Retrieve Video and Channel Names

Specify whether you want to retrieve video and channel names when a Video or Channel ID is present in a report.

Channel IDs

Enter the channel ID you want to retrieve data for. If there are multiple channel IDs, separate them with commas. 

Duration 

Select whether you want to pull data for a specific date or a date range. 

Report Date 

Select whether the report data is for a specific date or for a relative number of days back from today. 

Select Specific Date 

Select the date for the report. 

Days Back

Enter the number of past days that should appear in the report.  

Start Date

Specify whether the first date in your date range is a specific or relative date. You select the last date in your range in End Date. 

End Date

Specify whether the second date in your date range is a specific or relative date. You select the first date in your range in Start Date.  

Select Specific Start Date

Select the first date in your date range. 

Select Specific End Date

Select the second date in your date range. 

Days Back to Start From

Enter the number of the farthest day back that should be represented in the report. Combine with Days Back to End At to create a range of represented days.

For example, if you entered 10 for Days Back to Start From and 5 for Days Back to End At, the report would contain data for 10 days ago up until 5 days ago.

Days Back to End At

Enter the number of the most recent day back that should be represented in the report. Combine with Days Back to Start From to create a range of represented days.

For example, if you entered 10 for Days Back to Start From and 5 for Days Back to End At, the report would contain data for 10 days ago up until 5 days ago.

Other panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

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Use Domo's YouTube Reporting Enterprise connector to retrieve information about YouTube assets, videos, and channels.

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