📕YouTube

How to connect your YouTube content to Cozmos

Setting up YouTube for Cozmos

In your Cozmos Space go to: Settings / Social Media Integrations / YouTube

Please note that some channels and content may be restricted due to copyright and privacy terms. So ensure content works as expected before publishing your sphere.

The 'Title' field allows you to name the content you are linking, this makes it easier to find when browsing what content to add in Curator through the Social Content Link Action

For YouTube we support several types of content. Channels, playlists, videos, shorts and livestreams and all use the same approach. You also need to only include part of the url, not all of it. You can see examples of what is required below:

Content Type	Full example URL (yellow section required by Cozmos)
Channel	Requires channel ID, explained below
Video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MwMII8n1qM
Clip/Shorts	https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hIhgaSwVwh8
Livestream	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZZpaB2kDM
Playlist	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOGi5-fAu8bFCa0SrS331gW0ykmM7HuAV

To access a livestream url link before the video has launched, we recommend watching this tutorial to see where the permalink can be found within your own YouTube channel account.

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To add a Channel, you will need the channel id and how you find this ID will change depending if you are the owner of the channel or not.

For your own channel, click on your profile logo in the top right of the screen and select View your channel

A new browser tab will open, copy the url displayed in that tab. That is your channel ID. Or you click the More About This Channel button to get your channel name

For public channels, click on the arrow to the right of the channel description

This will open the About information for this channel. If you scroll to the bottom of the window you will see a Share Channel button. From here you can get the channel ID

Paste the channel ID in the Add Content section of the Social Media Integration settings

For videos, clips, livestreams and playlists follow the same process of Adding Content. Remembering to only use the part of the content URL as described in the table above.

There is no limit to how many content links you can add, but we recommend naming them clearly so you can easily find them in Curator when applying the Social Content Link action.