Exporting scheduled Youtube videos in Youtube Studio to my Google Calendar

Question

Hi folks,

I have to schedule Youtube videos for my channel(s) months in advance. YouTube studio displays this in a giant list, but I would -love - to be able to see data this in a calendar view so I can quickly visually see that I have things set to the right days of the week.

Is this possible with Zapier? I am flexible about what calendar it exports to if there’s some that are more user friendly than Google.

These are not publicly punished videos - only scheduled for future dates.

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Best answer by SamB 22 May 2023, 15:11

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SamB · Accepted Answer

Welcome to the Community@Aztecia, what a great question! 🙂I believe the YouTube New Video in Channeltrigger is able to trigger on scheduled videos that are not yet published. So you could use that for the trigger in a Zap and follow that up with aGoogle CalendarCreate Detailed Eventaction to add it into the calendar.Do you think that approach could work for you here?I’m pretty sure it would only trigger on each video once, so when those videos are published it shouldn’t then trigger on them again. If it did then that could result in some duplicate events being created on the Google Calendar. If you did find that there were duplicates being created then you could always try adding a filter to the Zap to check the published date is afterthe current date as that would indicate that it’s a scheduled video rather than one that has just been published. For example:I’d have thought it would definitely only trigger once per video so you likely won’tneed touse a filter here, but thought I should mention it just in case.Hope this information helps. If you run into any further questions or get stuck in setting that up at all just let us know. Always happy to help further!

Aztecia · Answer

Welcome to the Community@Aztecia, what a great question! 🙂I believe the YouTube New Video in Channeltrigger is able to trigger on scheduled videos that are not yet published. So you could use that for the trigger in a Zap and follow that up with aGoogle CalendarCreate Detailed Eventaction to add it into the calendar.Do you think that approach could work for you here?I’m pretty sure it would only trigger on each video once, so when those videos are published it shouldn’t then trigger on them again. If it did then that could result in some duplicate events being created on the Google Calendar. If you did find that there were duplicates being created then you could always try adding a filter to the Zap to check the published date is afterthe current date as that would indicate that it’s a scheduled video rather than one that has just been published. For example:I’d have thought it would definitely only trigger once per video so you likely won’tneed touse a filter here, but thought I should mention it just in case.Hope this information helps. If you run into any further questions or get stuck in setting that up at all just let us know. Always happy to help further!Unfortunately I was not able to get this to work as intended :( It sort of…tried to do it once but then no further tries worked.Also notice my Zapier layout looks different to yours? Are you able to give me a step by step on how to set this up?

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