How to create a YouTube Source

Supported YouTube Sources

Buzzspark supports the following YouTube Sources:
Channel – aggregates all videos posted by a specific YouTube channel
Search – aggregates all videos posted on YouTube containing specific keyword(s)

Refer to the following article if you want to import a single video.

Before you can start aggregating content from YouTube, your Buzzspark account must have at least one valid connection with a Google account.

Creating a YouTube Source

Step 1: Navigate to Sources

From the left menu, browse to Content > Sources

Step 2: Click to create add a new source

Click on the + Source button on the top right. This launches the Create New Source window. The tabs along the top in this window and the features within each tab may vary depending on the type of content you wish to ingest from YouTube. Each of the tabs are detailed in the following steps.

Step 3: General tab

Source Name (required)
Enter a short name to help you identify this Source e.g. MyChannel.

Network (required)
From the drop-down list, select YouTube.

Type (required)
From the drop-down list, select the type of content you wish to aggregate from YouTube e.g. Channel . See Supported YouTube Sources

The next field refers to the Term of the Source and depends on your choice for Type earlier.

If Type is set to Channel, a valid ChannelID is required in the format https://www.youtube.com/channel/ChannelID

If Type is set to Search, one or more keywords are required. Boolean NOT (-) and OR (|) operators are allowed. E.g. to search for either boating or sailing, enter: boating|sailing or to search for boating but not fishing, enter: boating -fishing.

Tags (optional)
Click in the Tags field and start typing the name of an existing Tag you want to add to all tweets aggregated by this Source. You can also click on the Add New Tag button to create and add a new Tag. Tags help you group content to simplify moderation and to filter content to show on different Displays. Learn more about Tags.

At this point you could click on the Save and Close button to save the new Source and start aggregating content, however we recommend you explore the additional steps below that guide you through advanced features for refining and filtering content that is aggregated, auto moderation, aggregating historical content and scheduling.

Step 4: Advanced tab

Filter by users and Filter Type
Allows you to filter aggregation based on a Whitelist or Blacklist of specified channels. This option is only applicable for Type: Channel.

Whitelist
Specify a list of channel names separated by a comma. Only videos from these channels will be aggregated. E.g. “BBCSport,DoctorWho”

Blacklist
Specify a list of channel names separated by a comma. Videos from these channels will be disregarded and all other videos will be aggregated. E.g. “BBCSport,DoctorWho”

Additional keyword filtering
Any hashtags or keyword entered here will be used to further filter all content that is aggregated via this Source.

Only aggregate content that includes any of the following hashtags or keywords
If a video does not contain any of the specified keywords, it will not be aggregated, regardless of any preceding settings.

Do not aggregate content that includes any of the following hashtags or keywords
If a video contains any of the specified keywords, it will not be aggregated, regardless of any preceding settings.

Use partial matching
By default, only exact matches of any keywords you specify are filtered. If you enable partial matching, the match criteria are expanded so filtering for "bread" will also match "gingerbread" and "breadcrumb".

Enable Back-Off
This setting automatically optimises aggregation based on activity levels for this Source and we recommend leaving it selected.

Step 5: Moderation tab

Settings under the Moderation tab are common to Sources for all Networks. See Banned Word Filter and Auto-Moderation features in Buzzspark for further details.

Step 6: Aggregation tab

Settings under the Aggregation tab are common to Sources for all Networks. See enabling and disabling a Source, aggregating Historic content from social networks, and how to schedule aggregation of content from social networks for further details.

Saving or Discarding changes to a Source

You can click on the Close, Save and Close or Save buttons at the bottom at any time.

Close– closes the Source page without saving and changes since the last Save.
Save and Close – saves any changes and closes the Source page
Save– saves any changes without closing the Source page

Updated on: 03/02/2023