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Connectors / Marketing · HTTP Connector
Automate YouTube with Tray.ai
Upload a video, create a playlist and add a playlist item in YouTube. Connect YouTube to the rest of your marketing stack with Tray.ai.
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What can you do with YouTube on Tray.ai?
YouTube is Google's video platform, where businesses publish videos, manage channels and playlists, and respond to viewer comments. Tray.ai connects to YouTube through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the YouTube API alongside the rest of your stack.
- Upload a video when a final cut is approved in your digital asset management system.
- List comments on new videos and send them to the social team in your team chat.
- Add a playlist item for each webinar recording your events team publishes.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 or an API key in the query string
- Base URL
- https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3
Set it up
Connect YouTube to Tray.ai
Each step uses YouTube's own API details, from its documentation.
Step 1
Sign in to YouTube with OAuth 2.0
Set up an OAuth 2.0 authentication with the client ID and secret of an OAuth app you register with YouTube. Sign in once and every step reads the token from there.
Step 2
Point the HTTP Client at the API
Add an HTTP Client step and use https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3 as the base URL. Or paste a cURL example from YouTube's API docs, and Tray.ai fills in the method, URL, and headers.
Step 3
Start with “List videos”
It's one of 24 documented actions, under Videos. The response comes back as data the next step can map into your other apps.
Step 4
Hand it to an AI agent
Wrap “Upload a video” and “Update a video” in workflows, and Tray.ai's Agent Gateway for MCP publishes them as governed tools Claude and other AI agents can call.
What the YouTube API covers
6 resources and 24 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow. Connecting it takes a few clicks: here's how.
Videos
- List videos
- Upload a video
- Update a video
- Delete a video
- Rate a video
Playlists
- List playlists
- Create a playlist
- Update a playlist
- Delete a playlist
Playlist items
- List playlist items
- Add a playlist item
- Update a playlist item
- Delete a playlist item
Comments
- List comments
- Reply to a comment
- Update a comment
- Delete a comment
- Set comment moderation status
Channels
- List channels
- Update a channel
Captions
- List captions
- Upload a caption track
- Download a caption track
- Delete a caption track
Checked against YouTube's own documentation on 2026-10-22
How Tray.ai makes this work
YouTube plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
Intelligent Integration
Integrate and automate across 9,000+ apps, databases, APIs, and services with visual workflows, error handling, and observability.
Learn more →Agent Builder
Build AI agents that read, write, and take action in YouTube — with guardrails, audit, and human-in-the-loop.
Learn more →Agent Gateway for MCP
Expose YouTube actions as governed MCP tools — observable, rate-limited, authenticated.
Learn more →Tray Helix
Build apps on YouTube data with your AI assistant, then deploy, run, and govern them on Tray.ai.
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in YouTube?
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The YouTube API documents 24 actions across 6 resources (Videos, Playlists, Playlist items, Comments, Channels, Captions). For example: List videos; List playlists; List playlist items. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with YouTube?
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The YouTube API uses OAuth 2.0 and an API key in the query string. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
See YouTube working against your stack.
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