Get YouTube video views by traffic source type

The Youtube Analytics API supports many different report types. You can see them in the official documentation here. This tutorial will show you how to use the Traffic sources report to extract details about which channels send how much traffic to each of your videos.

This is a two-step process. First, we’ll get a list of video IDs. Then we’ll ask for analytics on those video IDs.

Get a list of video IDs

In order to request traffic sources by video ID, we first need a list of video IDs. We’ll use the YouTube /search endpoint to find our videos. Use the form below to get your IDs.

Get your YouTube video IDs

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Make a note of a a video ID that you’d like to drill in to.

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You can drill into multiple video IDs, just join them with a comma. For example: ID-1,ID-2,ID-3

Get traffic source details

Using the video IDs from the previous step, we’ll call the YouTube Analytics /reports endpoint. We’ll specify that we want a traffic sources report by requesting the insightTrafficSourceType dimension.

This will return traffic sources with types like: ADVERTISING, ANNOTATION, CAMPAIGN_CARD, END_SCREEN, EXT_URL, NO_LINK_EMBEDDED, NO_LINK_OTHER, NOTIFICATION, PLAYLIST, PROMOTED, RELATED_VIDEO, SHORTS, SUBSCRIBER, YT_CHANNEL, YT_OTHER_PAGE, YT_PLAYLIST_PAGE, YT_SEARCH. To get the exact definition of what each type is, please refer to the YouTube documentation.

Note that this report only supports a subset of dimensions and metrics — refer to the official documentation for more details.

Update the filters parameter in the form below to use your video IDs. To get data on two videos, it should read video==your-ID-1,your-ID-2

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