Ytstudio

ytstudio - YouTube Analytics & Management

YouTube channel analytics and video management via the ytstudio CLI.

When to Use

• User asks about YouTube performance, stats, or analytics
• User wants to know how a video is doing
• User asks about subscriber growth, views, watch time, revenue
• User mentions "YouTube", "channel", "my videos", "how's the channel doing"
• Any content strategy discussion that needs YouTube data
• Comparing video performance
• Revenue tracking

Authentication

• CLI: ytstudio (installed via uv tool install)
• Account: samin.yasar12@gmail.com
• Channel: Samin Yasar
• Credentials: ~/.config/ytstudio-cli/client_secrets.json

Commands

Channel Overview

# Quick status check
ytstudio status

# Analytics overview (default 28 days)
ytstudio analytics overview -d 28 -o json

# Custom time range
ytstudio analytics overview -d 7 -o json    # last week
ytstudio analytics overview -d 90 -o json   # last quarter

Per-Video Analytics

# Get analytics for a specific video
ytstudio analytics video VIDEO_ID

# List recent videos
ytstudio videos list

# Show video details
ytstudio videos show VIDEO_ID

Custom Queries

# Custom analytics query with any metrics and dimensions
ytstudio analytics query --help

# List available metrics
ytstudio analytics metrics

# List available dimensions
ytstudio analytics dimensions

Comments

ytstudio comments

Video Management

# Update video metadata
ytstudio videos update VIDEO_ID

# Bulk search and replace across videos
ytstudio videos search-replace

Key Metrics Available

Core Metrics

Revenue Metrics

Reach Metrics

Key Dimensions

• day / month - Time breakdown
• video - Per-video breakdown
• country / city - Geographic
• deviceType - Mobile/desktop/tablet/TV
• insightTrafficSourceType - Where traffic comes from
• creatorContentType - Shorts vs videos vs live
• ageGroup / gender - Audience demographics
• subscribedStatus - Sub vs non-sub viewers

Patterns

Quick health check

ytstudio analytics overview -d 7 -o json

Compare periods

Run overview for different day ranges and compare the numbers.

Find best performing videos

Use custom query with video dimension + views/engagement metrics.

Related Tools

• ScrapeCreators - For YouTube video transcripts (content analysis)
• ytstudio - For YouTube analytics (performance data)
• These complement each other: ScrapeCreators for WHAT the content says, ytstudio for HOW it performs