YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog: November 2016

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

YouTube Reporting APIwe are making a set of system-managed ad revenue reports available to content ownersrevision historyHow to start using the new reportsCheck what new report types are available to you

Get an OAuth token (authentication credentials)

Call the reportTypes.list method with the includeSystemManaged parameter set to true.

The response lists all report types available to you. As you can’t use the new report types to create reporting jobs yourself, their systemManaged property is set to true.

Check if system-managed jobs have been created for you

Get an OAuth token (authentication credentials)

Call the jobs.list method with the includeSystemManaged parameter set to true. This will return a list of the available reporting jobs. All jobs with the systemManaged property set to true are jobs for the new report types.

Store the IDs of the jobs you want download reports for.

Download reports

Get an OAuth token (authentication credentials)

Call the reports.list method with the jobId parameter set to the ID found in the previous section to retrieve a list of downloadable reports created by that job.

Choose a report from the list and download it using its downloadUrl.

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