Channel reports, channel report metrics and custom analytics, worked for you
4 read operations and no writes: a companion can query custom analytics and list channel reports in YouTube Analytics and hand back the channel reports with the source on each row.
Open the channel report. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the YouTube Analytics afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing changed until you say so.
What it can do is exactly what YouTube Analytics exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 4 operations, 4 reads and no writes. In practice that means it can query custom analytics, list channel reports and get video metrics, and work across the channel reports, channel report metrics and custom analytics.
The YouTube Analytics API stops at YouTube Analytics. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Which YouTube Analytics channel reports does a companion see?
All 4 operations read.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can query custom analytics, list channel reports and get video metrics, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from YouTube Analytics's documentation.
The channel reports are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the channel report metrics. A companion can hold all 4 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of YouTube Analytics admin becomes a queue you review.
- Query Custom Analytics
- List Channel Reports
- Get Video Metrics
- Get Channel Report Metrics
How does a companion change a channel report?
Through the screens you already use.
YouTube Analytics exposes no write operation to a connected account, so a companion drives YouTube Analytics in the session you are already signed into instead, filling the same forms you would to move a channel report, and anything consequential stops for an approval card before it happens.
That is the ordinary case rather than the exception. Most of what a channel report in YouTube Analytics touches has no API pointed at it, and a companion is useful precisely because it does not need one.
Can it query custom analytics every morning by itself?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the YouTube Analytics channel reports pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the busywork, the YouTube Analytics channel reports sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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