YouTube
YouTube Shorts and videos through PostFlow.
Content types
Section titled “Content types”| Id | Format | Media | Kinds | Aspect (w/h) | Video length | Max size (image / video) | Caption max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
yt_short |
Short | 1 | video | 0.5–1 | 1–180 s | – / 4 GB | 5,000 |
yt_video |
Video | 1 | video | – | 1–43200 s | – / 256 GB | 5,000 |
- Shorts: square or vertical, up to 3 minutes. Links look like
youtube.com/shorts/…. - Videos: any shape. Longer than 15 minutes needs a phone-verified channel (pre-flight warns with
youtube_long).
Options
Section titled “Options”| Option | Notes |
|---|---|
youtube.title |
Up to 100 characters, no < or >. Defaults to the caption’s first line. The caption becomes the description (5,000 characters). |
youtube.privacy |
public, unlisted or private. |
youtube.madeForKids |
Required by YouTube’s rules for content made for children. |
youtube.tags |
Up to 500 characters in total. |
youtube.categoryId |
Default 22 (People & Blogs). |
youtube.thumbnailMediaId |
Videos: a JPEG or PNG up to 2 MB. Needs a phone-verified channel; otherwise YouTube picks one. |
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”Until PostFlow’s YouTube access passes Google’s audit, YouTube makes every upload private; the composer says so. You can make it public in YouTube Studio. YouTube also limits uploads per day for each app.
Metrics
Section titled “Metrics”Views, likes and comments.