This guide contains all permissions and requirements for connecting your YouTube Public data data to Supermetrics.
You can connect to data sources from the Data sources page on the Supermetrics Hub. On the Hub, you can also share an authentication link to connect to a data source you don't have direct access to.
After you connect to the data source on the Hub, you can use the data source connection in all available destinations.
Required permissions
To connect Supermetrics to YouTube Public Data, you need a Google account.
Query types
Query types define what sort of metrics and dimensions are available. You need to select one of the following query types when pulling data:
- Channel: Retrieve channel details and performance data for any YouTube channel.
- Channel videos: Retrieve YouTube video details and performance data for all videos of any YouTube channel.
- Video: Retrieve YouTube video details and performance data for any YouTube video.
Connection instructions
When connecting to YouTube Public Data, you need to log in to Google and select the query type when prompted.
- Select the YouTube Public Data data source on the Supermetrics Hub or in the data destination.
- If prompted, choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Select the Google account you want to login with.
- Select your account or brand account.
- Click Continue.
- Click Allow to allow the Supermetrics app to access your profile data.
- In your data destination, select the query type to use and the channel ID or video ID.
See detailed instructions on how to connect to a data source from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can also connect to YouTube Public Data from these destinations:
- Google Sheets: How to log in to a Supermetrics data source in Google Sheets
- Looker Studio: How to connect data sources to Looker Studio
- Excel: How to connect data sources to Excel with Supermetrics
- Power BI: How to create your first Supermetrics query for Power BI
- The Supermetrics API: How to use the Query Manager
- Data warehouse and cloud storage (Hub): How to create a transfer
- BigQuery (marketplace): How to create a BigQuery (marketplace) transfer