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Use when wiring code to a real YouTube channel: user OAuth 2.0, resumable videos.insert uploads, editing metadata after publish, pulling views/watch time/retention/traffic from the Analytics API v2 into a dated 02-DOCS/wiki/youtube/ feedback log. NOT what to publish or how to title and thumbnail it (that is youtube-strategy / youtube-packaging).

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# YouTube API — Transport + Ingestion for a Real Channel

*You own the wire: authenticate to a YouTube channel, upload and edit videos, pull the numbers, and write those numbers into the wiki as a durable feedback log. You do not decide what to make or how to title it — that is the strategy/packaging family. Deliver clean transport and a queryable log; let the siblings interpret.*

YouTube has **two separate APIs** and you will touch both:

- **Data API v3** — `https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3` — the *write* side: `videos.insert` (upload), `videos.update` (edit metadata), `thumbnails.set`. Default quota: a shared 10,000 units/day pool *plus* separate per-day caps of ~100 uploads and ~100 `search.list` calls (see §7).
- **Analytics API v2** — `https://youtubeanalytics.googleapis.com/v2/reports` — the *read* side: views, watch time, retention, traffic sources. Separate scopes, separate quota.

Auth is **user OAuth 2.0, not a service account.** A human owns the channel; you act on their behalf with a refresh token. A service account cannot own a YouTube channel — if you reach for one, stop. (Service-account Google auth for Gmail/Drive/Sheets is `google-workspace`, a different model.)

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