Search YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists. Costs 100 quota units per call — use sparingly.

List the authenticated user's playlists. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Read a playlist's items/contents. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Create a new playlist. Costs 50 quota units.

Add one or more videos to a playlist. Costs 50 quota units per video.

Permanently remove specific items from a playlist by playlist-item ID. Costs 50 quota units per item. Requires confirm: true.

Scan a playlist (1 unit/page) and plan removal of [Deleted video]/[Private video] tombstones, duplicates, and/or videos from given channels. Defaults to dry-run (dryRun: true) — returns the plan without deleting. Pass dryRun: false to actually delete, at 50 quota units per item.

Permanently delete an entire playlist. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

Rename, re-describe, or change the privacy of a playlist. Full-replace on the snippet/status parts — reads the current playlist first so omitted fields aren't blanked. Costs 50 quota units.

Move a playlist item to a new position (reorder). Costs 50 quota units.

Fetch metadata, status, and statistics for up to 50 videos by ID. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Update a video's title, description, category, tags, privacy, and related status flags. Full-replace on the snippet/status parts — reads the current video first so omitted fields aren't blanked. Costs 50 quota units.

Like, dislike, or clear your rating on a video. Costs 50 quota units.

Get the authenticated user's rating (like/dislike/none) for up to 50 videos. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Permanently delete a video you own. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

Upload a video from a local file path via resumable upload. This is the most expensive tool in the server — costs 1600 quota units, 16% of the default daily budget.

Report a video to YouTube for abuse/policy violation. Costs 50 quota units. Irreversible outward action — requires confirm: true.

Update your channel's branding metadata (title, description, keywords, trailer, language, country). Full-replace on the brandingSettings part — reads the current settings first so omitted fields aren't blanked. Costs 50 quota units.

List the authenticated user's own channel(s) with snippet, statistics, and status. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

List channel sections (the shelves shown on a channel's homepage) for a channel, or your own if channelId is omitted. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Create a new channel section (homepage shelf). Costs 50 quota units.

Update an existing channel section. Full-replace on the snippet/contentDetails parts — reads the current section first so omitted fields aren't blanked. Costs 50 quota units.

Permanently delete a channel section. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

List the authenticated user's channel subscriptions. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Subscribe to a channel. Costs 50 quota units.

Unsubscribe from a channel. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

List replies under a top-level comment. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Reply to an existing top-level comment. Costs 50 quota units.

Edit the text of a comment you posted. Costs 50 quota units.

Permanently delete a comment. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

Set the moderation status of one or more comments on your videos — publish, hold for review, or reject (hide from public view; the current replacement for the removed markAsSpam method). Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

List top-level comment threads for a video or channel. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Post a new top-level comment on a video or channel. Costs 50 quota units.

List caption tracks for a video. Costs 50 quota units.

Upload a new caption track from a local file (SRT/VTT/SBV/TTML). Costs 400 quota units.

Update a caption track's draft status, optionally re-uploading its file from a local path. Costs 450 quota units.

Download a caption track to a local file path. Costs 200 quota units.

Permanently delete a caption track. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

Upload and set a video's custom thumbnail from a local image file. Costs 50 quota units.

Upload and set a channel's video watermark from a local image file. Costs 50 quota units.

Remove a channel's video watermark. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

List recent channel activity (uploads, likes, playlist additions, etc.) for a channel, or your own if channelId is omitted. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

List cover images for a playlist. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

Upload a cover image for a playlist from a local file. Costs 50 quota units.

Replace a playlist cover image's file. Costs 50 quota units.

Permanently delete a playlist cover image. Costs 50 quota units. Requires confirm: true.

List members of your channel's memberships program. Costs 1 quota unit per call. MONETISATION-GATED: 403s unless the channel is an active YouTube Partner Program channel with memberships enabled.

List your channel's membership pricing levels. Costs 1 quota unit per call. MONETISATION-GATED: 403s unless the channel is an active YouTube Partner Program channel with memberships enabled.

List assignable video categories for a region. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

List the application languages supported by YouTube. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

List the content regions supported by YouTube. Costs 1 quota unit per call.

List the reason IDs accepted by report-video-abuse. Costs 1 quota unit per call.