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An AI teammate for YouTube.

Connect YouTube and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 14 YouTube actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about YouTube
  • Which YouTube invoices are overdue, and by how much?
  • Check this month's YouTube payments against the sheet and flag anything that doesn't match.
  • Send me money in and money out from YouTube every Monday.
  • Draft reminders for the customers more than 30 days late in YouTube.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in YouTube

14 YouTube actions, picked for what you ask.

About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment

Reads

10 in all · always allowed
  • List captions
    Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video, returning an empty list if no captions…
  • Video details
    Retrieves specified information parts (e.g., snippet, contentdetails, statistics) for a YouTube…
  • Search YouTube
    Searches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw api…
  • List channel videos
    Lists videos from a specified YouTube channel, ensuring results are of `type: 'video'`.
  • List user playlists
    Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=true.
  • Get Channel Activities
    Gets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes,…
  • Get Channel Statistics
    Gets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video…
  • List user subscriptions
    Retrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of…
  • Get channel ID by handle
    Retrieves the YouTube channel id for a specific YouTube channel handle.
  • Download YouTube caption track
    Downloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and…

Changes

4 in all · off when YouTube is read-only
  • Update thumbnail
    Sets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from thumbnailurl;
  • Update video
    Updates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoid, which must exist;
  • Upload video
    Uploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel;
  • Subscribe to channel
    Subscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique…

Showing 14 of 14. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect YouTube

    Open Connections, find YouTube and press Connect. You sign in on YouTube's own page; there's nothing to configure.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share YouTube with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a YouTube job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

YouTube, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

YouTube and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with YouTube?

Yes. YouTube is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with one click. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect YouTube?

Open Connections, find YouTube and press Connect. You sign in on YouTube's own page; there's nothing to configure.

What can Cicada do in YouTube?

14 actions: 10 that read from YouTube and 4 that change things in it, for example list captions, video details, search youtube. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in YouTube?

Yes. In Connections, set YouTube to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about YouTube from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run YouTube jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my YouTube data safe?

Your YouTube login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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