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Uploads a caption track

21 variables
17 variables

Uploads a caption track

Authorization

To use this building block you will have to grant access to at least one of the following scopes:

  • See, edit, and permanently delete your YouTube videos, ratings, comments and captions
  • View and manage your assets and associated content on YouTube

Input

This building block consumes 21 input parameters

  = Parameter name
  = Format

part STRING Required

The part parameter specifies the caption resource parts that the API response will include. Set the parameter value to snippet

onBehalfOf STRING

ID of the Google+ Page for the channel that the request is be on behalf of

onBehalfOfContentOwner STRING

Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners.

The onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter indicates that the request's authorization credentials identify a YouTube CMS user who is acting on behalf of the content owner specified in the parameter value. This parameter is intended for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. It allows content owners to authenticate once and get access to all their video and channel data, without having to provide authentication credentials for each individual channel. The actual CMS account that the user authenticates with must be linked to the specified YouTube content owner

sync BOOLEAN

The sync parameter indicates whether YouTube should automatically synchronize the caption file with the audio track of the video. If you set the value to true, YouTube will disregard any time codes that are in the uploaded caption file and generate new time codes for the captions.

You should set the sync parameter to true if you are uploading a transcript, which has no time codes, or if you suspect the time codes in your file are incorrect and want YouTube to try to fix them

etag STRING

Etag of this resource

id STRING

The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the caption track

kind STRING

Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "youtube#caption"

snippet OBJECT

Basic details about a caption track, such as its language and name

snippet.audioTrackType ENUMERATION

The type of audio track associated with the caption track

snippet.failureReason ENUMERATION

The reason that YouTube failed to process the caption track. This property is only present if the state property's value is failed

snippet.isAutoSynced BOOLEAN

Indicates whether YouTube synchronized the caption track to the audio track in the video. The value will be true if a sync was explicitly requested when the caption track was uploaded. For example, when calling the captions.insert or captions.update methods, you can set the sync parameter to true to instruct YouTube to sync the uploaded track to the video. If the value is false, YouTube uses the time codes in the uploaded caption track to determine when to display captions

snippet.isCC BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the track contains closed captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. The default value is false

snippet.isDraft BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the caption track is a draft. If the value is true, then the track is not publicly visible. The default value is false

snippet.isEasyReader BOOLEAN

Indicates whether caption track is formatted for "easy reader," meaning it is at a third-grade level for language learners. The default value is false

snippet.isLarge BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the caption track uses large text for the vision-impaired. The default value is false

snippet.language STRING

The language of the caption track. The property value is a BCP-47 language tag

snippet.lastUpdated DATE_TIME

The date and time when the caption track was last updated. The value is specified in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ) format

snippet.name STRING

The name of the caption track. The name is intended to be visible to the user as an option during playback

snippet.status ENUMERATION

The caption track's status

snippet.trackKind ENUMERATION

The caption track's type

snippet.videoId STRING

The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the video associated with the caption track

Output

This building block provides 17 output parameters

  = Parameter name
  = Format

etag STRING

Etag of this resource

id STRING

The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the caption track

kind STRING

Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "youtube#caption"

snippet OBJECT

Basic details about a caption track, such as its language and name

snippet.audioTrackType ENUMERATION

The type of audio track associated with the caption track

snippet.failureReason ENUMERATION

The reason that YouTube failed to process the caption track. This property is only present if the state property's value is failed

snippet.isAutoSynced BOOLEAN

Indicates whether YouTube synchronized the caption track to the audio track in the video. The value will be true if a sync was explicitly requested when the caption track was uploaded. For example, when calling the captions.insert or captions.update methods, you can set the sync parameter to true to instruct YouTube to sync the uploaded track to the video. If the value is false, YouTube uses the time codes in the uploaded caption track to determine when to display captions

snippet.isCC BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the track contains closed captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. The default value is false

snippet.isDraft BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the caption track is a draft. If the value is true, then the track is not publicly visible. The default value is false

snippet.isEasyReader BOOLEAN

Indicates whether caption track is formatted for "easy reader," meaning it is at a third-grade level for language learners. The default value is false

snippet.isLarge BOOLEAN

Indicates whether the caption track uses large text for the vision-impaired. The default value is false

snippet.language STRING

The language of the caption track. The property value is a BCP-47 language tag

snippet.lastUpdated DATE_TIME

The date and time when the caption track was last updated. The value is specified in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ) format

snippet.name STRING

The name of the caption track. The name is intended to be visible to the user as an option during playback

snippet.status ENUMERATION

The caption track's status

snippet.trackKind ENUMERATION

The caption track's type

snippet.videoId STRING

The ID that YouTube uses to uniquely identify the video associated with the caption track