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Analytics

Which analytics metrics YouTube returns and the YouTube-only analytics endpoints.


Call GET /v1/analytics?platform=youtube (Analytics API).

MetricAvailable
Likes
Comments
Shares (through Daily views only)
Views
const { data: analytics } = await zernio.analytics.getAnalytics({
  query: { platform: 'youtube', fromDate: '2026-08-01', toDate: '2026-08-31' }
});

console.log(analytics.posts);

Response (200), one entry per post:

{
  "posts": [
    {
      "_id": "65f1c0a9e2b5af0012ab34cd",
      "platform": "youtube",
      "status": "published",
      "publishedAt": "2026-08-14T10:00:05Z",
      "platformPostUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
      "analytics": {
        "likes": 342,
        "comments": 28,
        "shares": 0,
        "views": 15420
      }
    }
  ]
}

Four YouTube-only endpoints go deeper:

  • Daily views: per-day views, watch time, subscriber changes and per-day likes, comments and shares for one video. Data has a 2 to 3 day delay.
  • Channel insights: channel-level views, watch time, average view duration and subscribers gained and lost, without looping through every video. Impressions and impressions click-through rate (the thumbnail metrics in YouTube Studio) are not exposed by YouTube's Analytics API v2 for any principal type; the only way to get those is a manual Studio CSV export.
  • Demographics: audience by age, gender and country, for the channel or one video. Age and gender values are viewer percentages (0 to 100), country values are view counts. Based on signed-in viewers only, with a 2 to 3 day delay.
  • Video retention: the audience retention curve of one video, up to 100 points over the whole date range.
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Transcripts & Captions

Read the caption track of a connected channel's own video to get its transcript.

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Comments, moderation and likes on YouTube videos in the inbox.