Quick Overview

YouTube integration is one of Lindy’s most powerful content management capabilities, enabling your AI agents to act as sophisticated YouTube assistants for content creators, marketers, and businesses. The integration provides both Triggers (what can start a Lindy workflow) and Actions (what Lindy can do). This comprehensive integration transforms Lindy into a powerful YouTube automation platform, capable of handling everything from community management and content monitoring to video publishing and channel optimization. Key benefits of YouTube integration:
  • Comprehensive monitoring – Track comments, subscribers, and new videos in real-time
  • Content management – Upload, organize, and optimize videos automatically
  • Community engagement – Automate responses and build stronger communities
  • Analytics and insights – Monitor performance and competitor activity

How to set up YouTube

1

Add YouTube to your workflow

Click on the plus sign at the bottom or right-click anywhere on the canvas and select “Add Trigger” or “Add Action” from the pop-up menu and choose “YouTube”
Add YouTube to workflow
2

Connect and Configure your YouTube

Click on “Add Account” and authorize your YouTube for Lindy’s integrations through Google OAuth. Grant the necessary permissions for read, write, and manage access to your YouTube account.
YouTube connection

YouTube Triggers

New Comment In Channel

Triggers when a new comment is posted on a YouTube channel:
  • Community management - Stay on top of community interactions automatically
  • Automated responses - Respond to frequently asked questions instantly
  • Content moderation - Monitor and moderate channel comments
  • Perfect for community engagement, customer service, content moderation

New Comment Posted

Triggers when new comments are posted on YouTube videos or channels:
  • Broader monitoring - Track comments across multiple videos
  • Sentiment analysis - Analyze viewer feedback and sentiment
  • Customer service - Automate responses to product-related inquiries
  • Essential for engagement tracking, customer service, feedback analysis

New Liked Videos

Triggers when new videos are added to your liked videos:
  • Content curation - Build personal content curation workflows
  • Research compilation - Track competitive analysis and inspiration
  • Recommendation systems - Build systems based on preferences
  • Perfect for content research, competitive analysis, personal curation

New Subscriber

Triggers when a new subscriber follows your YouTube channel:
  • Welcome campaigns - Send welcome emails to new subscribers
  • Milestone celebrations - Celebrate subscriber milestones automatically
  • CRM integration - Convert subscribers into leads
  • Essential for growth tracking, welcome sequences, community building

New Subscription

Triggers when a YouTube channel receives a new subscriber:
  • Growth tracking - Monitor channel growth and analytics
  • Thank you messages - Send automated appreciation messages
  • Marketing funnels - Integrate with marketing automation
  • Perfect for analytics tracking, subscriber engagement, growth monitoring

New Videos

Triggers when new YouTube videos are published based on search criteria:
  • Competitor monitoring - Track competitor video uploads
  • Industry trends - Monitor industry-specific content
  • Content research - Gather inspiration and market intelligence
  • Essential for competitive analysis, market research, trend monitoring
Triggers when new videos match specified search criteria and filters:
  • Targeted monitoring - Highly specific content tracking
  • Brand mentions - Track brand mentions across YouTube
  • Niche research - Monitor specific topics and keywords
  • Perfect for brand monitoring, niche research, targeted content curation

New Videos In Playlist

Triggers when new videos are added to a YouTube playlist:
  • Playlist management - Automate playlist organization
  • Educational tracking - Monitor course and series updates
  • Collaborative management - Track team playlist changes
  • Essential for playlist automation, educational content, team collaboration

New Videos In Subscribed Channels

Triggers when subscribed channels upload new videos:
  • Content consumption - Automate personal content workflows
  • Research automation - Track learning and research sources
  • Competitive analysis - Monitor competitor uploads
  • Perfect for personal automation, research workflows, competitive intelligence
Use “New Videos By Search” triggers combined with “Create Comment Thread” actions for the most powerful YouTube engagement workflows.

YouTube Actions

Transcribe Video

Get captions and title for a YouTube video as plain text:
  • Content analysis - Analyze video content and generate summaries
  • SEO research - Extract content for optimization research
  • Accessibility - Improve content accessibility with transcriptions
  • Perfect for content analysis, SEO optimization, accessibility improvements

YouTube Channels by URL

Collect YouTube channels by channel URL:
  • Channel analysis - Research and analyze channel performance
  • Competitor profiling - Build comprehensive competitor profiles
  • Influencer identification - Discover partnership opportunities
  • Essential for channel research, competitor analysis, influencer marketing

YouTube Comments by URL

Collect YouTube comments by video URL:
  • Sentiment analysis - Analyze viewer sentiment and feedback
  • Community insights - Understand audience preferences
  • Market research - Gather market intelligence from comments
  • Perfect for sentiment analysis, market research, community insights

YouTube Scraper

YouTube crawler and video scraper with no limits or quotas:
  • Large-scale extraction - Extract data at scale without API limits
  • Comprehensive research - Conduct extensive market research
  • Content analysis - Analyze content across multiple channels
  • Essential for large-scale data extraction, comprehensive research, competitive intelligence

YouTube Videos by URL

Collect YouTube videos by video URL:
  • Video metadata - Extract comprehensive video information
  • Content cataloging - Organize and catalog video content
  • Performance tracking - Track video performance metrics
  • Perfect for video analysis, content cataloging, performance tracking

Add Playlist Items

Add videos to a YouTube playlist:
  • Automated curation - Automatically organize content into playlists
  • Content organization - Structure educational and marketing content
  • Campaign management - Organize campaign-specific content
  • Essential for content organization, automated curation, campaign management

Create Comment Thread

Create a new comment thread on a YouTube video or channel:
  • Automated engagement - Engage with community automatically
  • Community building - Build stronger community connections
  • Marketing campaigns - Execute marketing engagement strategies
  • Perfect for community engagement, marketing campaigns, customer service

Create Playlist

Create a new playlist with customizable privacy settings:
  • Content organization - Organize content into structured playlists
  • Campaign playlists - Create campaign-specific content collections
  • Educational series - Structure educational content systematically
  • Essential for content organization, educational series, campaign management

Delete Playlist

Delete a YouTube playlist from your account:
  • Content cleanup - Remove outdated or unnecessary playlists
  • Campaign conclusion - Clean up after campaign completion
  • Account maintenance - Maintain organized channel structure
  • Perfect for content cleanup, campaign management, account maintenance

Delete Playlist Items

Remove selected videos from a YouTube playlist:
  • Playlist maintenance - Keep playlists current and relevant
  • Content quality control - Remove low-performing content
  • Automated curation - Maintain high-quality content collections
  • Essential for playlist maintenance, quality control, automated curation

List Playlist Videos

Get a list of videos from a specified YouTube playlist:
  • Playlist analysis - Analyze playlist performance and content
  • Content auditing - Audit and review playlist content
  • Performance tracking - Track playlist engagement metrics
  • Perfect for playlist analysis, content auditing, performance tracking

Reply To Comment

Reply to YouTube comments with custom text messages:
  • Community engagement - Respond to community interactions
  • Customer service - Provide automated customer support
  • Marketing interactions - Engage with marketing campaigns
  • Essential for community engagement, customer service, marketing automation

Search Videos

Search YouTube videos with filters for duration, location, and criteria:
  • Content research - Find relevant content for research
  • Competitive analysis - Analyze competitor content strategies
  • Market intelligence - Gather market insights and trends
  • Perfect for content research, competitive analysis, market intelligence

Update Channel

Update YouTube channel details including description and keywords:
  • Channel optimization - Optimize channel for better discoverability
  • SEO automation - Automate SEO optimization workflows
  • Brand consistency - Maintain consistent branding across channels
  • Essential for channel optimization, SEO automation, brand management

Update Video Details

Modify title, description, tags, and metadata for YouTube videos:
  • SEO optimization - Optimize video metadata for better ranking
  • Content updates - Update video information and descriptions
  • Performance optimization - Optimize based on performance data
  • Perfect for SEO optimization, content updates, performance improvement

Upload Channel Banner

Upload a banner image to your YouTube channel:
  • Brand consistency - Maintain consistent visual branding
  • Campaign branding - Update branding for specific campaigns
  • Seasonal updates - Automate seasonal branding changes
  • Essential for brand consistency, campaign management, seasonal updates

Upload Thumbnail

Upload a custom thumbnail image for a YouTube video:
  • Visual optimization - Optimize thumbnails for better click-through
  • A/B testing - Test different thumbnail variations
  • Brand consistency - Maintain consistent thumbnail styling
  • Perfect for visual optimization, A/B testing, brand consistency

Upload Video

Upload and publish videos to YouTube with customizable settings:
  • Content publishing - Automate video publishing workflows
  • Scheduled releases - Schedule content releases automatically
  • Multi-platform distribution - Coordinate across multiple platforms
  • Essential for content publishing, scheduled releases, campaign launches

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