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YouTube Analytics API

Bring YouTube video performance data into your product, reporting workflow, automation, or AI system through PostPeer.

  • Retrieve supported performance data for YouTube videos
  • Analyze videos from connected YouTube channels
  • Filter analytics by date range and sort by performance
  • Google OAuth and token handling managed through PostPeer
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POST https://api.postpeer.dev/v1/posts
{ "platforms": ["twitter", "linkedin"], "content": "Hello world!" }
Published
2 platforms
TwitterLinkedIn
All posts delivered
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Add Social Media to Your Product in Three Steps

Connect once, then publish, schedule, and read data through the same API.

01

Get Your API Key

Sign up and get your API key instantly. No sales calls or complicated setup.

02

Integrate in Minutes

Connect once to PostPeer to publish, schedule, analyze, manage comments, and handle messages.

03

Support Every Major Platform

Give your users access to major social platforms without building and maintaining each integration yourself.

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Explore Requests and Responses by Format

Use the same endpoint and change only the fields required for each publishing format.

POSTRequest · Channel Videos
curl -X GET "https://api.postpeer.dev/v1/analytics?source=platform&platform=youtube&accountId=acc_yt_789&limit=10&page=1" \
 -H "x-access-key: your-api-key"
202Response · Channel Videos
{
    "success": true,
    "total": 1,
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 10,
    "posts": [
      {
        "source": "platform",
        "postId": null,
        "publishedAt": "2026-08-28T14:30:00Z",
        "aggregated": {
          "impressions": null,
          "reach": null,
          "likes": 342,
          "comments": 56,
          "shares": null,
          "saves": null,
          "clicks": null,
          "views": 12450,
          "engagementRate": null
        },
        "platforms": [
          {
            "platform": "youtube",
            "platformPostId": "VIDEO_ID",
            "platformPostUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
            "metrics": {
              "impressions": null,
              "reach": null,
              "likes": 342,
              "comments": 56,
              "shares": null,
              "saves": null,
              "clicks": null,
              "views": 12450,
              "engagementRate": null
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
}

GET https://api.postpeer.dev/v1/analytics

View the YouTube API reference

Everything You Need for YouTube Analytics

Track video performance across views, engagement, and watch time without managing the YouTube Data API.

Video-Level Metrics

Get views, likes, comments, and shares for every YouTube video. Track performance from the moment of publication.

Watch Time Analytics

See total watch time in minutes and average view duration in seconds. Understand how long viewers are actually watching your content.

Shorts Support

Analytics work for both long-form YouTube videos and YouTube Shorts. Same endpoint, same response format.

Engagement Rate

PostPeer calculates engagement rate automatically, the percentage of views that resulted in likes, comments, or shares.

Date Range Filtering

Filter video analytics by date range. Find your best-performing videos over any time period.

No YouTube API Setup

Skip the YouTube Data API, OAuth consent screens, and quota management. PostPeer handles everything.

Ship YouTube Analytics in Any Stack

Whether your product is a Node app, a no-code workflow, or an AI agent, the same PostPeer API can power the publishing workflow.

Dev Stack

Typed SDKs and predictable REST APIs let you integrate PostPeer into the stack your application already uses.

No Code

Trigger publishing workflows from tools your team already uses.

Setup guides

AI Agents & MCP

Give Claude, Cursor, Codex, or your own AI agent the ability to publish, schedule, and interact with social workflows through PostPeer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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