Author: Gaurav Sood
Date: 2026-04-11

# Using tubern

#### Gaurav Sood

#### 2026-04-11

## tubern: Access YouTube Analytics API via R

### Install, Load the package

To install the latest version from CRAN:

    install.packages("tubern")

The latest development version of the package will always be on GitHub. Instructions for installing the package from Github are provided below.

    # install.packages('devtools')
    devtools::install_github("soodoku/tubern", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Next, load the package:

    library(tubern)

### Using the package

To get going, get the application id and password from Google Developer Console (see https://developers.google.com/youtube/reporting/). Enable YouTube APIs. Then set the application id and password via the `yt_oauth` function. For more information about YouTube OAuth, see YouTube OAuth Guide.

    yt_oauth("998136489867-5t3tq1g7hbovoj46dreqd6k5kd35ctjn.apps.googleusercontent.com", "MbOSt6cQhhFkwETXKur-L9rN")

    ## Waiting for authentication in browser...
    ## Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort
    ## Authentication complete.

#### Get Statistics of a Video

    get_report(ids = "channel==MINE", metrics = "views", start_date = "2010-04-01", end_date ="2017-04-01")

    ## $kind
    ## [1] "youtubeAnalytics#resultTable"

    ## $columnHeaders
    ## $columnHeaders[[1]]
    ## $columnHeaders[[1]]$name
    ## [1] "views"

    ## $columnHeaders[[1]]$columnType
    ## [1] "METRIC"

    ## $columnHeaders[[1]]$dataType
    ## [1] "INTEGER"

    ## $rows
    ## $rows[[1]]
    ## $rows[[1]][[1]]
    ## [1] 6