YouTube

The Lyftron Provider for YouTube offers the most natural way to access YouTube data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing YouTube data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s YouTube data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months.

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to YouTube.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for YouTube, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your YouTube connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click YouTube for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish YouTube connection with Lyftron.

User=[your_Username];Password=[your_Password] ;OAuth access token = [yoiur_access_token];

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron YouTube connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for YouTube  models entities in the YouTube  API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.

Tables

The Lyftron Provider for YouTube models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your YouTube store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.

Views

Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views. 

Name	Type	Description
Activities	Views	Query YouTube Activities. An Activity resource contains information about an action that a particular Channel, or User, has taken on YouTube.
Captions	Views	Query YouTube Captions. A Caption resource represents a YouTube caption track.
Channels	Views	Query YouTube Channels.
ChannelSections	Views	Query YouTube ChannelSections. A ChannelSection contains information about a set of Videos that a Channel has chosen to feature.
Comments	Views	Query YouTube Comments.
CommentThreads	Views	Query YouTube CommentThreads. A CommentThread record contains information about a YouTube comment thread, a top-level comment and replies, if any exist, to that comment.
GuideCategories	Views	Query YouTube GuideCategories. A GuideCategory resource identifies a category that YouTube algorithmically assigns based on a content of a channel or other indicators, such as the popularity of the channel.
Languages	Views	Query YouTube i18nLanguages. An i18nLanguage resource identifies an application language that the YouTube website supports. The application language can also be referred to as a UI language.
PlayListItems	Views	Query YouTube PlayListItems. A PlayListItem resource identifies another YouTube entity, such as a Video, that is included in a PlayList. In addition, the PlayListItem record contains details about how that entity is used in that PlayList.
PlayLists	Views	Query YouTube PlayLists. A PlayList is a collection of videos that can be viewed sequentially and shared with other users.
Regions	Views	Query YouTube i18nRegions. An i18nRegion resource identifies a geographic area that a YouTube user can select as the preferred content region. The content region can also be referred to as a content locale.
Subscriptions	Views	Query YouTube User Subscriptions. A Subscription notifies a User when new Videos are added to a Channel, or when another user takes one of several actions on YouTube, such as uploading a Video, rating a Video, or commenting on a Video.
VideoAbuseReportReasons	Views	Query YouTube VideoAbuseReportReasons. A VideoAbuseReportReason resource contains information about a reason that a Video would be flagged for containing abusive content.
VideoCategories	Views	Query YouTube VideoCategories. A VideoCategory resource identifies a category that has been or could be associated with uploaded Videos.
Videos	Views	Query YouTube Videos.