Connect your YouTube

Connect a public YouTube channel to bring eligible videos into byline. For your own channel, byline can also track view, like, and comment counts over time. It does not guarantee every upload or transcript will be available.

Connect a channel

1. Open Sources in your dashboard and expand YouTube.
2. Enter a channel URL, channel ID, or handle such as @yourchannel (the @ is optional).
3. Choose Add YouTube. Connect your own public channel.

There is no YouTube sign-in for a public channel. The first read is queued, so check Your sources and your library later; a connection is not proof that every video has finished processing. Your plan's reading allowance and background processing limits apply.

What byline reads

For eligible public videos, byline keeps available titles, descriptions, links, and publication dates. Video analysis uses the watch URL to extract spoken or visible content; when processing succeeds, it can provide transcript text and sometimes time-bounded excerpts. Some videos may be unavailable, too long, or fail analysis. Do not treat an AI-generated transcript as a guaranteed complete or exact caption file.

The channel watcher pages through your uploads over time. Large back-catalogues take multiple reads and may pause at allowance limits.

Engagement counts

byline captures view, like, and comment counts on a schedule. It does not import the comments themselves. Comments imported earlier stay outside your creator-voice corpus. Rich YouTube analytics such as watch time, retention, and demographics are not included.

Keep it fresh

Connected channels are checked in the background for new work. If you have just published, choose Resync on that source in Your sources. Resync queues another read rather than importing a video instantly; allow time for analysis and check status afterward. Production resyncs have a roughly 30-minute per-source cooldown and shared limits.