YouTube Analytics
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Skip the manual setup — run this in your project and the wizard auto-detects your databases and APIs and connects them to PostHog.
Connect YouTube Analytics to PostHog to sync your data into the PostHog data warehouse for analysis and modeling.
Pull daily channel metrics from the YouTube Analytics API: views, watch time, subscribers, traffic sources, geography and demographics.
Connect the Google account that manages your channel, then pick the channel to sync. PostHog asks for read-only access to your YouTube Analytics reports and your list of channels.
Configuration
| Option | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
Google account | oauth | Yes |
Channel | oauth-account-select | Yes |
Start date | text | No |
Linking YouTube Analytics to PostHog
- Go to the Data pipeline page in PostHog
- Click New source and select YouTube Analytics
- Fill in the required configuration fields
- Click Next, select the tables you want to sync, and then press Import
Supported tables
| Table | Description | Sync method | Incremental field | Primary key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
channel_daily | Daily channel-level user activity: views, watch time, engagement and subscriber changes. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day |
top_videos | The channel's top videos for each day, ranked by watch time (up to 200 videos per day). | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, video |
traffic_sources | Daily views and watch time broken down by the referrer type that led viewers to the videos. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, insightTrafficSourceType |
playback_locations | Daily views and watch time broken down by the type of page or application where playback occurred. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, insightPlaybackLocationType |
device_types | Daily views and watch time broken down by the form factor of the device used for playback. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, deviceType |
operating_systems | Daily views and watch time broken down by the operating system of the playback device. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, operatingSystem |
geography | Daily views, watch time and subscriber changes broken down by viewer country. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, country |
demographics | Daily viewer distribution across age group and gender, for signed-in viewers only. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, ageGroup, gender |
sharing_services | Daily share counts broken down by the service videos were shared to. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, sharingService |
subscribed_status | Daily views and watch time split by whether the viewer was subscribed to the channel. | Incremental, Full refresh | day | day, subscribedStatus |