Overview
The Lyftrondata Provider for YouTube offers the most natural way to access YouTube data from Lyftrondata 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 Lyftrondata’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, Lyftrondata and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftrondata
Establishing a Connection with Lyftrondata's Quickstart Steps
Create your YouTube connection with Lyftrondata 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 Lyftrondata.
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 Lyftrondata logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftrondata, click on Lyftrondata 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 Lyftrondata logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftrondata YouTube connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
The Lyftrondata 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 Lyftrondata 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. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to YouTube Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.