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View your YouTube account
youtube.readonlyRead your channel, its videos and their statistics so reports and expected-vs-got comparisons are real.
Reading anyone else's private data.
Manage your YouTube videos
youtube.uploadUpload the Shorts your team approves, on your schedule, to your own channel.
Uploading anything unapproved. Deleting videos.
See, edit, and permanently delete your videos, ratings, comments and captions
youtube.force-sslRead comments on your videos and post the replies you approve — Google bundles comment reading and writing into this one broadly-worded permission.
Deleting videos, changing ratings, editing captions, replying without a human action.
View your YouTube Analytics reports
yt-analytics.readonlyShow your viewers' age group, gender and country on the Audience page.
Profiling individual viewers — data is aggregate only.
Stored
Channel identity and encrypted tokens; your videos' titles, thumbnails and statistics; comments on your videos and replies sent through the app; aggregate viewer demographics. Visible only inside your workspace.
Refreshed, then deleted
Data is refreshed automatically while the channel is connected (nothing stored is older than 30 days). Disconnect the channel and its tokens plus everything imported from YouTube are deleted immediately.
Revoke any time
From the app (Connect Accounts → channel → Disconnect) or at Google directly. Revoking at Google stops access instantly.