YouTube Integration | Documentation

Upload video to your YouTube channel on a schedule, with the title, description, tags, privacy, and licensing settings you'd normally set by hand in YouTube Studio.

At a glance

What it's for	Long-form and Shorts video.
Post types	Video
Account needed	A YouTube channel. New channels must be verified by YouTube before the API will accept public uploads.
How you connect	OAuth — you approve Greenwood Social on Google's site.
Content archiving	Published posts are backed up automatically.

Connecting your account

Add YouTube from your Accounts page and approve the connection with the Google account that owns the channel. If you manage several channels under one Google login, make sure you pick the right one during approval.

A brand-new or unverified channel can only upload private videos until YouTube verifies it. That is a YouTube restriction — verify the channel in YouTube Studio first if you plan to publish publicly.

What you type, and where it shows up

YouTube is the platform that uses the most of your post. Title and Content map cleanly onto the video title and description, and Tags do double duty — as YouTube's own keyword field and as hashtags in the description, where YouTube renders the first three above the title.

A YouTube video post. Fields marked * are required.

You type	Video post
Title	Required — The video title, shown under the player.max 100 characters
Content	The video description.max 5,000 characters
Tags	Sent as YouTube keyword tags (metadata) and appended as #hashtags to the description — YouTube renders the first three above the title.
Link	Not used — URLs in a caption are not clickable on this platform.
Privacy	Public, unlisted, or private on the channel.

Media requirements

Video formats	MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, WEBM
Max video size	128.0 GB
Video length	up to 15 minutes
If your file doesn't fit	We convert it for you where we can — video becomes MP4. Files we can't bring within these limits are reported before the post is scheduled, not after.

A vertical video under 60 seconds is published as a Short automatically — that is YouTube's own classification, not a separate post type here.

Per-post options

Option	What it does	Default	Applies to
Made for Kids`madeForKids`	Designate this video as made for children (required by FTC)	Off	All post types
Allow Embedding`embeddable`	Allow this video to be embedded on other websites	On	All post types
Show Public Stats`publicStatsViewable`	Display detailed statistics publicly on the watch page	On	All post types
Creative Commons`useCreativeCommons`	Use Creative Commons license instead of standard YouTube license	Off	All post types

These are the options YouTube exposes to partner tools through its API. Platforms often test new settings inside their own app long before opening them to tools like ours — when that happens the option simply isn't available to us until they publish it.

Made for Kids is an FTC requirement, not a preference. Setting it correctly matters — YouTube disables comments and personalized ads on videos marked for children.

Scheduling

Schedule uploads for any future time — see Scheduled Posting for how times, timezones, and cancellation work.

Metrics

Metric	Status
Likes & comments	Available
Views / plays	Available
Reach / impressions	Available
Follower count	Available
Shares / reposts / saves	Not offered by the platform
Comment text (needed to read & reply to comments)	Available

Where it works

In the app	Create a post or schedule one, and select this account. Bulk sessions work too.
API	Post and schedule through the REST API with the same fields shown above.
MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, and others)	Connect Greenwood Social as an MCP connector and ask your assistant to draft and schedule posts.

If YouTube needs a different title from the rest of your platforms, publish it as its own post. That takes seconds when you're working through an AI assistant over MCP.