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Add the Youtube Analytics Connector

Authenticate to Youtube Analytics

After you add the connector, you need to set the required properties. supports authenticating to in several ways. Select your authentication method below to proceed to the relevant section that contains the authentication details.

OAuth

OAuth JWT

To connect with a account, set the following properties:
  • Auth Scheme: Select OAuthJWT.
  • OAuth JWT Cert: Enter your Java web tokens (JWT) certificate store.
  • OAuth JWT Cert Type: Enter the type of key store that contains your JWT Certificate. The default type is PEMKEY_BLOB.
  • (Optional) OAuth JWT Cert Password: Enter the password for your OAuth JWT certificate.
  • (Optional) OAuth JWT Cert Subject: Enter the subject of your OAuth JWT certificate.

GCP Instance Account

AWS Workload Identity

To connect by using Workload Identity Federation via AWS, specify the following properties:
  • Auth Scheme: Select AWSWorkloadIdentity.
  • AWS Workload Identity Config: Enter the configuration properties to provide when you are using Workload Identity Federation via AWS.
  • Workload Pool Id: Enter the identifier (Id) of your Workload Identity Federation pool.
  • Workload Project Id: Enter the Id of the Google Cloud project that hosts your Workload Identity Federation pool.
  • Workload Provider Id: Enter the Id of your Workload Identity Federation pool provider.

Complete Your Connection

To complete your connection:
  1. Specify the following properties:
    • (Optional) Channel Id: Enter the identifier (Id) that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the channel that is associated with the activity. If you do not specify a channel, data is returned for the authenticated user’s channel.
    • (Optional) Content Owner Id: Enter the Id of the copyright holder for content in YouTube’s rights management system. Specify this identifier if you want to generate content-owner reports.
  2. Define advanced connection settings on the Advanced tab. (In most cases, though, you should not need these settings.)
  3. Connect to to connect to your account.
  4. Click Create & Test to create your connection.

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