Social & Community · Integration
YouTube
Add YouTube to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
A YouTube integration is two things at once: publishing to a channel the customer owns, and reading back what happened to what they published. Uploads carry a title, description, tags, thumbnail, privacy status and a scheduled publish time; playlists organise what is there; comments arrive and need moderating; and analytics report views, watch time, retention and where an audience came from. The constraint everybody meets is quota. Each operation is charged in units against a daily allowance, an upload costs far more than a read, and asking for a larger allowance is a review rather than a setting, so a design that uploads freely or polls for comments will run dry halfway through an afternoon. Each customer authorises their own channel, which also means the quota consequences follow the account that caused them. fastn keeps those authorisations per tenant.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer authorise their own YouTube channel, so videos your product publishes belong to them rather than to an account you hold.
Upload a video with its metadata, thumbnail and scheduled publish time straight from your product.
Read views, watch time and retention so your product shows how a video performed beside whatever produced it.
Read and moderate comments so a creator handles their audience where the rest of their work happens.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reports how a channel's recent uploads performed and where viewers stopped watching.
An agent publishes or updates a video's metadata within scoped permissions, with the change recorded.
An agent summarises new comments on a video and flags the ones needing a human reply.
Example prompt
How did this channel's uploads perform this month, and which videos lose viewers earliest?
Set up YouTube in 4 steps
- 01Enable the YouTube connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own channel, so uploads and quota land on their account.
- 03Budget your quota use before you build, then map the video, playlist, comment and analytics fields your product needs.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the YouTube integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a YouTube integration without building it. Your customers connect their own YouTube account inside your product and work their posts, pages and comments there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: anything published is public immediately, and each network gates access behind its own review process. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a YouTube update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed YouTube connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you publish and listen from inside your product instead of a separate social tool without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a YouTube integration to my product?
Enable the YouTube connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own YouTube account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no YouTube client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own YouTube account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own YouTube account and only ever sees their own posts, pages and comments. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this YouTube integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reports how a channel's recent uploads performed and where viewers stopped watching.
Who maintains the YouTube integration?
fastn does. When YouTube changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can my product publish to a customer's own YouTube account?
Yes. Each customer authorises their own account, so a post goes out as them, under their permissions, never from a shared account you own. That also means a customer revoking access affects only their own connection.
Can I read engagement back from YouTube?
Yes. Comments, reactions and reach come back scoped per tenant, so your product can act on them or show them in your own reporting without one customer's numbers mixing with another's.
What can I build with the YouTube integration?
A common starting point: let each customer authorise their own YouTube channel, so videos your product publishes belong to them rather than to an account you hold. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the YouTube integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding YouTube does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add YouTube to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.