Post to YouTube with tenfeeds
tenfeeds uploads videos to your YouTube channel. You choose the title, the visibility and the made-for-kids setting for every video.
Status: not open yet. tenfeeds is waiting on YouTube. Your Accounts page shows if you can connect it. See Supported platforms.
Connect
In Accounts, pick YouTube and log in with Google. If your channel is on a Brand Account, pick it on Google's account chooser. On Google's screen, tick every box. tenfeeds asks for two things: permission to upload videos, and read-only access to your YouTube account, which it uses to show the channel you're uploading to.
By using tenfeeds to post to YouTube, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. The Google Privacy Policy covers how Google handles your data.
Account requirements
- A Google account with a YouTube channel.
- Each connection is one channel. To add another channel, connect YouTube again and pick the other account.
- YouTube sets each channel's upload limits. New channels have lower limits. Verify your channel to upload videos longer than 15 minutes.
What you can post
One video per post, with no photos. Your caption becomes the video's description. tenfeeds doesn't have a separate Shorts option. It uploads your video, and YouTube decides whether to show it as a Short.
Settings you choose for every video
- Title: required, up to 100 characters, without < or >. It starts as the first line of your caption, and you can change it.
- Visibility: Public, Unlisted or Private. There's no default.
- Made for kids: "No, it's not made for kids" or "Yes, it's made for kids". There's no default.
Next to the post button, tenfeeds shows YouTube's notice: by uploading, you confirm the video follows the YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and that it doesn't violate others' copyright or privacy rights.
Agents can't choose the visibility or the made-for-kids setting. You always pick them yourself. See How agent drafts work.
After the upload
tenfeeds marks the video Posted as soon as the upload finishes, with a link to it. YouTube keeps processing the video after that, and it can still block it, for example for a copyright claim. Check YouTube Studio if a video doesn't look right.
Limits
- Description: up to 5,000 bytes, without < or >. Emoji and accented letters count as more than one byte.
- Video file: up to 4 GB in tenfeeds.
- Spacing: tenfeeds waits at least 15 minutes between uploads to the same channel.
- tenfeeds' daily allowance: tenfeeds can upload a limited number of YouTube videos a day in total. If that runs out, tap Retry the next day, or upload the video in the YouTube app.
Your data
tenfeeds keeps your channel's ID, name and picture, and the IDs of videos you post. It refreshes or deletes this data at least every 30 days, and deletes it within 7 days after you disconnect. You can also remove tenfeeds' access in your Google Account at security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. If you do, tenfeeds deletes your YouTube data within 30 days. Deleting your tenfeeds data doesn't delete anything on YouTube. See Google's Privacy Policy and the YouTube Terms of Service.
Common errors
- This Google account has no YouTube channel: create a channel on YouTube, or connect the Google account or Brand Account that owns it.
- tenfeeds doesn't have permission to upload: connect YouTube again and tick every box on Google's screen.
- This channel has hit YouTube's daily upload limit: try again tomorrow.
- YouTube rejected the title or description: remove < and >, and keep the title to 100 characters.
- YouTube rejected the video: the message says why, like a duplicate, a copyright claim, or a video longer than the channel is allowed. Check YouTube Studio for details.
Still stuck? Email [email protected]. If it's about a post, include its time and platform.