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The purpose of this PowerShell module is to enable you to manage YouTube data from PowerShell.
- Search for YouTube videos or channels
- Get details for YouTube videos (ie. duration, like count, comment count)
- Retrieve top-level comments from YouTube videos
- Delete a comment, from a YouTube video you own
- Post a comment on a video
- Subscribe or unsubscribe from a YouTube channel
We recommend installing this module on PowerShell Core edition, for cross-platform compatibility. You can install this module from the PowerShell Gallery.
Install-Module -Name YouTube, Pode -Scope CurrentUser -Force
This YouTube module relies on the Pode web server to handle the oAuth flow. A temporary web server will be created in order to
In order to use this module, you will need to configure an application in Google Cloud Console.
- Create a Google Cloud Project
- Add the YouTube Data API v3 to your project
- Go to
APIs & Services-->Credentials - Choose
Create Credentials-->oAuth Client ID - For
Application Type, chooseWeb Application - Use the generated
Client IDandClient Secretvalues to configure the module - Add the
RedirectURIofhttp://localhost:8000/auth/complete
After doing this, run the following command:
Set-YouTubeConfiguration
After configuring the client ID and client secret values, you will need to login to your YouTube account.
Grant-YouTubeOAuth
🌎 NOTE: Browser detection is not all that great. If you want to override the browser command line, use the -Browser parameter. Feel free to recommend improvements to browser detection!
- Follow the steps above to create an application
- For
Application Type, chooseTVs and Limited Input devicesinstead - Run the
Grant-YouTubecommand to initiate authentication
PS /> Find-YouTubeVideo -Query 'trevor sullivan'
VideoId Channel Title Published Date Title
------- ------------- -------------- -----
LFWxH-bexNk Trevor Sullivan 2/2/2020 9:49:30 PM Handling Errors in PowerShell with Try..Catch..Finally
8dZbdl3wzW8 Trevor Sullivan 12/12/2020 11:01:24 PM Run Tasks on Timers in PowerShell
jh361zZvOlg Trevor Sullivan 1/21/2016 6:27:39 PM Trevor Sullivan: Organ donation makes a difference (full clip)
4Ink31WKRmQ Midwest Management Summit 3/24/2016 2:20:03 AM MMS 2016 Speaker Interview - Trevor Sullivan
-nGpXnjQVIQ Trevor Sullivan - NanangoCFC 1/16/2022 1:26:24 PM 2022.01.16 Isaiah 64 - The Heart's Cry of Believers in a Fallen World
8D23XL0b4zo Trevor Sullivan - NanangoCFC 1/22/2022 11:35:13 PM 2022.01.23 Isaiah 65 New Heavens & New Earth
Y3_N9S6ZoEg Midwest Management Summit 10/13/2015 5:24:33 AM MMS 2015 - Speaker Interview - Trevor Sullivan
bO264A6eoW0 Trevor Sullivan 5/6/2019 3:11:15 AM Original Choreography by Trevor Sullivan
-7uuXvQrvX8 Midwest Management Summit 10/25/2014 8:31:09 PM MMS Speaker Interview - David O'Brien and Trevor Sullivan
qwwnbXSm700 Trevor Sullivan 11/12/2015 5:32:39 AM Authoring Custom PowerShell Intellisense with Trevor Sullivan
D5W1HarSaZU Ignite Talks Burlington 2/26/2019 1:11:32 AM Trevor Sullivan - Broccoli. Broccoli? BROCCOLI! - IgniteBTV 2/20/2019
tPs2ROyqrxI Trevor Sullivan 1/20/2022 7:07:15 AM Ya daddy
VqKD3JjA7Eo The QB School 12/22/2021 2:00:11 PM Free Trevor
qye_c4_pWQ4 CBT Nuggets 1/18/2022 12:15:13 PM What is InfluxDB and Why Use It?
PS /> Get-YouTubeVideo -Id LFWxH-bexNk
VideoId Channel Title Views Likes Dislikes Comments Duration
------- ------------- ----- ----- -------- -------- --------
LFWxH-bexNk Trevor Sullivan 6307 265 0 22 PT18M48S
PS /> Get-YouTubeVideo -Id LFWxH-bexNk,8dZbdl3wzW8
VideoId Channel Title Views Likes Dislikes Comments Duration
------- ------------- ----- ----- -------- -------- --------
LFWxH-bexNk Trevor Sullivan 6307 265 0 22 PT18M48S
8dZbdl3wzW8 Trevor Sullivan 4035 150 0 10 PT17M8S
PS /> Get-YouTubeComment -VideoId LFWxH-bexNk
PS /> Get-YouTubeCommentThread -VideoId LFWxH-bexNk
CommentId PublishedAt Updated At Replies Like Count Commenter Text
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UgwJX6qbSv6qyfKiXFB4AaABAg 11/7/2021 1:33:41 PM 11/7/2021 1:33:41 PM 0 0 BRANESH G Fantastic! Thanks a lot for the perfect explanation. 👍
Ugwj7UBjIIJPNQ1kxbx4AaABAg 10/28/2021 11:45:30 AM 10/28/2021 11:45:30 AM 0 0 닉네임 잘 보고 있습니다. 눈이 이쁘시네요.
UgwjrWy5th_EO7FDxwx4AaABAg 9/9/2021 8:06:25 PM 9/9/2021 8:06:25 PM 0 0 Ausaf Ahmed Hi Trevor<br><br>Please share your secret how you learn about all these details just going through microsoft documentation in deta…
UgzTzb__OsBJ0cCkaEx4AaABAg 9/8/2021 5:59:42 PM 9/8/2021 5:59:42 PM 0 0 Surfer Sandman This was fantastic. Thanks so much for this detailed explanation. I've been using Try/Catch statements, for a while, but was o…
UgykzIT-NBxGW9nlZ194AaABAg 7/20/2021 4:16:20 AM 7/20/2021 4:16:20 AM 0 0 GameHistoryX Awesome!
UgyVBWwjcnBA1CSfdUN4AaABAg 5/18/2021 2:16:12 AM 5/18/2021 2:16:12 AM 0 0 Steven ls Amazing, so well explained. I do like the ErrorActionPreference also, didn't understand that previously. Glad to have found …
UgzELqIF1tKP2twr4-14AaABAg 3/22/2021 10:42:12 AM 3/22/2021 10:42:12 AM 0 0 M. SZ. Thanks!
UgxMpQcFrD-nA2yjpCl4AaABAg 2/13/2021 6:36:00 PM 2/13/2021 6:36:00 PM 0 0 Po prostu kanał it's maybe a bit lame, but could you explain in another video how you move around the lines, select whole sentence in quote or…
UgxmX75pC_XlOGOtGqJ4AaABAg 1/24/2021 11:14:35 PM 1/24/2021 11:14:35 PM 2 0 C U What is all this about write-host kills puppies? I use it in all of my try catch blocks and it produces fine for me. I also cannot…
Ugy2U7gW_ZUvVprPlAt4AaABAg 1/7/2021 9:04:17 PM 1/7/2021 9:04:17 PM 0 0 HaasiAustria Hello! Do you know, is "finally" removed? I get the error: "the term finally is not recognized as the name of a cmd…
UgwaFspdil_xTmU7wzR4AaABAg 6/28/2020 2:17:16 PM 6/28/2020 2:17:16 PM 0 1 Vaska Tito Thx a lot man! I'm a beginner and i was starting to loose my temper because my catch was not working... i just had to add the …
UgzlKKVpGjUdgUrLbER4AaABAg 6/12/2020 9:30:13 AM 6/12/2020 9:30:13 AM 0 0 Ben Mathew Excellent video,flow throughout the video is good
UgzwjM_BfwhEeDdYxMp4AaABAg 2/15/2020 4:59:16 AM 2/15/2020 4:59:16 AM 0 0 Matthew Bramer Very good content! Was hoping you'd cover $LASTEXITCODE and when that comes into play. Maybe a follow up is in order. 😊
Ugy2qdM7_KMJ_zvZTKF4AaABAg 2/9/2020 10:35:14 AM 2/9/2020 10:35:14 AM 0 1 tutu Excellent! As usual, your teaching talents are exceptional! Thank you so much for sharing your videos with us!
UgwWPyE_qmAnzPBWf5t4AaABAg 2/8/2020 2:38:45 PM 2/8/2020 2:38:45 PM 0 0 Ay Jay Under normal circumstances, how does PowerShell know when a given exception is terminating or not?
UgyURVdTOxDbbNi6JfJ4AaABAg 2/6/2020 5:20:42 AM 2/6/2020 5:20:42 AM 0 1 Dylan Robey Very good video. Wish I had found you when I was a Powershell noob!
UgwMHBsGm_sL3cMMzA14AaABAg 2/3/2020 8:35:19 PM 2/3/2020 8:35:19 PM 0 1 Semtx552 Always nice to see handy things like how someone else uses VSCode…
UgwTUdL6EeyOSc-6-8p4AaABAg 2/2/2020 11:46:46 PM 2/2/2020 11:46:46 PM 1 2 Guido Oliveira This camera quality is amazing Trevor! awesome explanation as well!
UgxWz7fai70eXgLKLwV4AaABAg 2/2/2020 10:05:14 PM 2/2/2020 10:05:14 PM 0 1 Josh King That pop filter is majestic!
Use the -Raw parameter to obtain the entire HTTP response payload.
Then use the value of the nextPageToken property and pass it into the -PageToken parameter.
PS /> $VideoId = '2guC4Badq2s'
PS /> $Page1 = Get-YouTubeCommentThread -VideoId $VideoId -Raw
PS /> $Page2 = Get-YouTubeCommentThread -VideoId $VideoId -Raw -PageToken $Page1.nextPageToken
PS /> $Page3 = Get-YouTubeCommentThread -VideoId $VideoId -Raw -PageToken $Page2.nextPageToken
PS /> Remove-YouTubeComment -Id <commentId>
PS /> New-YouTubeComment -ChannelId <channelId> -VideoId <videoId> -Text 'This is a great video! 📺'
