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YouTube Connector

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Connector Features Summary
Features
Limitation

CES 7.0.7433+ (February 2015)

The Coveo connector for YouTube allows Coveo administrators to index and integrate YouTube user and brand channels content into the Coveo unified index. The connector indexes all items from specified YouTube channel(s) so that in the Coveo search interfaces, a user can easily find this content.

The content of this section is also available in PDF format for download:
YouTube Connector Guide

Connector Features Summary

Features Supported Additional information
YouTube version Data API (v3)  
Searchable content types Metadata on videos, channel playlists, and playlist items.
Content update Incremental refresh

Full refresh or rebuild needed to retrieve:

  • Deleted videos

  • Changes on videos

  • Statistics on video (e.g., view counts, likes, etc.) updates

  • Playlist and playlist item updates.
Full refresh  
Rebuild  
Document-level security   Permissions must be manually defined on the source [more]

Features

The YouTube connector features are:

Content indexing

  • Extraction and indexing of all available YouTube metadata on videos (including thumbnails).

  • CES 7.0.7711+ (June 2015) YouTube channel playlists and playlist items are indexed, but channel related playlists, such as the Likes and Watch Later, are not indexed.

Partial Incremental refresh

YouTube channels are periodically re-indexed by the connector to catch newly uploaded videos (see Configuring and Indexing a YouTube Source).

Notes:

  • Private and unpublished videos are not indexed.

  • Deleted and changed videos require a full refresh to be taken in account (see Limitation).

Pause/Resume

When indexing YouTube content, the connector can be paused and resumed.

Limitation

  • Limited incremental refresh capabilities:

    • A full refresh is needed to update deleted videos

    • A full refresh is needed to update changes on videos

    • A full refresh is needed to update statistics on videos (e.g., view counts, likes, ...)

    • A full refresh is needed to update playlists and playlist items.

      Note: CES 7.0.7711+ (June 2015) Playlist and Playlist items of a YouTube channel are indexed.

What's Next?

Review the steps to deploy the YouTube connector (see YouTube Connector Deployment Overview).