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
{ "platforms": ["twitter", "linkedin"], "content": "Hello world!" }
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Connect once, then publish, schedule, and read data through the same API.
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Get Your API Key
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02
Integrate in Minutes
Connect once to PostPeer to publish, schedule, analyze, manage comments, and handle messages.
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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.
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"{
"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
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.
Need More Than Analytics?
Add publishing and scheduling to the same connected YouTube workflow.
YouTube Posting
Upload supported videos and Shorts to YouTube with titles, descriptions, tags, privacy settings, categories, and other publishing controls.
Explore YouTube PostingYouTube Scheduling
Schedule supported YouTube videos and Shorts for future publishing through PostPeer.
Explore YouTube SchedulingShip 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.
- Node.js SDK
- Python SDK
- REST + cURL
- TypeScript-first types
AI Agents & MCP
Give Claude, Cursor, Codex, or your own AI agent the ability to publish, schedule, and interact with social workflows through PostPeer.
Connect via MCPBeyond YouTube: Every Supported Platform
Start with YouTube, then reach every other network through the same API.
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LinkedIn API
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TikTok API
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Facebook API
Pull Facebook performance metrics.
Instagram API
Pull Instagram performance metrics.
Add More Social Capabilities
Use the same connected accounts to schedule, analyze, manage comments, and handle conversations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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