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title: "YouTube"
description: "YouTube is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 943 installs sharing analytics and needs the vendor's cloud."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/youtube"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/youtube.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
---

# YouTube

> YouTube is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 943 installs sharing analytics and needs the vendor's cloud.

YouTube is a built-in Home Assistant integration that reads data from chosen YouTube channels. It adds sensors for each channel, covering the latest short, latest upload, latest video, subscribers, videos and views. Connection runs through Google's cloud, and access is granted on the vendor's own sign-in page. The channels to follow are picked in the setup step, and the same selection can be changed later in the options. Setup is done in the user interface, and a diagnostics file can be downloaded to attach to a bug report.

Automatic summary of Home Assistant's source code. Something wrong? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact)

[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=youtube)

## Supports

- **Uses the vendor's cloud**: Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
- **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
- **Sign in with the vendor**: Connects through the vendor's own sign-in page.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration.

### Channels

- **YouTube channels**

### After setup

- **YouTube channels**

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Entities

- **Sensors**: Latest short, Latest upload, Latest video, Subscribers, Videos, Views

## Troubleshooting

- **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Media and entertainment](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/media-and-entertainment.md), TV and streaming
- Brand: [Google](https://vulpo.app/integrations/google.md)
- Number: 943 installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Needs the vendor's cloud
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `youtube`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/youtube/>

In Vulpo: Chart card, Apple Watch

## Other ways in for Google

| Name | Kind | Installs or stars | Connection | Upkeep |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Google Translate text-to-speech](https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/google-translate.md) | Built-in integration | 524k installs sharing analytics | Needs the vendor's cloud | Part of Home Assistant |
| [Google Cast](https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/cast.md) | Built-in integration | 288k installs sharing analytics | Works locally | Part of Home Assistant |
| [Google Calendar](https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/google.md) | Built-in integration | 42.6k installs sharing analytics | Needs the vendor's cloud | Part of Home Assistant |
| [Google Gemini](https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/google-generative-ai-conversation.md) | Built-in integration | 36.3k installs sharing analytics | Needs the vendor's cloud | Part of Home Assistant |
| [Google Nest](https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/nest.md) | Built-in integration | 21.3k installs sharing analytics | Needs the vendor's cloud | Part of Home Assistant |

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/youtube

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