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From v0.34.0 the hub connects YouTube. Once it is connected, Claude can look up channels and videos, see what is trending, and analyse your own channel’s views and watch time. From v0.35.0 it can also manage your channel: post comments, edit video details, and tidy playlists. YouTube is added separately from your Google accounts, but it signs in with Google and uses the Google OAuth client you already registered. There is nothing new to create.
The hub asks YouTube for view and manage access. Uploading video files is the one thing it does not do, because of their size. See What it can do.
The pictures below show the Korean admin screen. The buttons are in the same places in English.

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Add the account

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Open Accounts and press Add account

In the admin screen, open Accounts and press Add account at the top right.
The Accounts screen, with a red circle drawn around the Add account button at the top right
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Choose YouTube and press Add account

Under Signs in with, press the circle next to YouTube. The account name fills in as youtube, and OAuth client already has the one your Google accounts use. Leave both as they are in most cases.Press Add account at the bottom.
The Add account screen with the YouTube card selected, the account name youtube and an OAuth client shown, and the Add account button marked
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Press Connect now

When the screen says the account was added, press Connect now. Google’s sign-in page opens.
The screen saying the youtube account was added, with the Connect now button marked
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Choose your Google account

Choose the Google account that owns your YouTube channel.
Google's account chooser with a red box around the first account and the other accounts blurred
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Choose the account that has the channel

If your Google account has a brand account under it, Google asks once more which one to continue as. Choose the one that holds the YouTube channel you want analysed. If the channel lives on a brand account, choose the brand account, or your channel’s analytics will look at the wrong one. If this screen does not appear, skip it.
Google's screen for choosing your account or a brand account, with a red box around the first row
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Continue past the unverified-app warning

Google warns that it has not verified this app. The app is the OAuth client you made yourself, so this is expected. Press Advanced, then the link at the bottom that starts with Go to.
The Google hasn't verified this app warning, with red circles around Advanced and the link at the bottom
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Press Continue

On the screen saying you are signing back in, press Continue.
The You're signing back in screen with the Continue button marked
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Check the access and press Continue

This screen shows what the hub will be allowed to do: see, edit and delete your YouTube videos, ratings, comments and captions. That is what the hub manages your channel with. Press Continue and you are back in the hub.
Google's access request screen with a red box around the permission to see, edit and delete YouTube videos and comments, and the Continue button marked
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Check that it says connected

You are done when the youtube account shows as connected on the Accounts screen.
The Accounts screen with a red box around the youtube account row, marked as connected
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Refresh Claude's tool list

Claude keeps its own copy of the tool list and does not notice a new account by itself. Refresh Claude’s tool list, then ask in a new conversation.

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What it can do

Ask Claude in plain words. Apart from uploading video files, it can do nearly everything a channel owner does. Deleting cannot be undone, so it keeps to a few rules. A public video, or one scheduled to go public, is never deleted: ask Claude to make it private first, then ask again. A list is deleted one video at a time, a second apart, and stops as soon as YouTube asks it to slow down. A list too large to leave 2,000 of the day’s 10,000 quota units spare does not start. The hub tells Claude to ask you which videos before it deletes anything. To keep the managing tools out of reach, connect through a read-only connection profile. Those tools do not appear there at all.

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Your channel and other channels

YouTube keeps some figures for everyone and some for the channel’s owner only. For other channels, Claude compares what is public: whether a video is doing better than usual for that channel, and how often it posts. YouTube sets a daily allowance (quota). Searching and managing use more of it than looking, so check what is left on the youtube account in the admin screen.

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Daily allowance

YouTube allows 10,000 units a day. The count is per Google Cloud project, the one you used when connecting, so youtube accounts connected through the same OAuth client share it. It refills every day at midnight Pacific time. Staying within it costs nothing. When it runs out you are not charged: YouTube requests just stop until the refill, and Claude tells you when that is. Roughly what one request uses: A day mixed like any of these still fits in 10,000. A day running the channel (about 5,700, 4,300 left)
  • Upload 2 videos with a thumbnail, captions and a playlist: 1,200
  • Change the description on 20 of your videos at once, one time: 1,020
  • Reply to 40 comments: 2,000
  • Check your channel 3 times: 42
  • Analyse a competitor channel 10 times: 340
  • Find videos by keyword and collect question comments 10 times: 1,110
A research day (7,500, 2,500 left)
  • Search YouTube 50 times: 5,000
  • Analyse a competitor channel 50 times: 1,700
  • Collect 300 comments on a video 200 times: 800
A heavy upload day (about 7,500, 2,500 left)
  • Upload 10 videos with a thumbnail, captions and a playlist: 6,000
  • Reply to 30 comments: 1,500
  • Check your channel 2 times: 28
Without captions an upload with thumbnail and playlist is 200, so a day of only uploads fits 40 videos. A change to many videos at once needs 2,000 spare to start, so do it earlier in the day. Analysis and collecting comments use almost nothing. What uses the allowance is searching (100 a time), managing such as replying or editing (50 a time), and uploading captions (400). Giving a channel address or a video link instead of asking Claude to search saves it. A change to many videos at once only starts if it leaves 2,000 spare, so the rest of the day still has room.

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Accounts connected earlier

A youtube account connected before v0.35.0 keeps working, but managing and reading comments need one reconnect. When Claude asks you to reconnect, open the youtube account in the admin screen, press Reconnect, and go through the Google screens above again.
The youtube account in the admin screen, with a red circle around the Reconnect button at the top right

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When it says the YouTube API is turned off

The YouTube API is normally turned on for you when the hub is installed or upgraded. If you are still told it is off, open the link Claude passes along and press Enable. Ask again after a few minutes. It costs nothing. The link opens this page in the Google Cloud console. If the message names the YouTube Analytics API instead, the page title differs but the button is the same. The picture shows the Korean console, where the button reads 사용.
The YouTube Data API v3 page in the Google Cloud console, with a red circle around the Enable button