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RafaSashi
RafaSashi

Reputation: 17215

Youtube API - How to send direct messages to followers?

According to google support:

Use Messages to send private messages to other members of the YouTube community. [...] The messages system utilizes Google+ messaging so your channel must be connected with a Google+ in order to use this feature.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57955?hl=en

Is it possible to send direct messages to followers via youtube or google plus API?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 587

Answers (1)

not_a_bot
not_a_bot

Reputation: 2372

I think the closest thing that's currently implemented is the Subscriptions resource, which

"contains information about a YouTube user subscription. A subscription notifies a user when new videos are added to a channel or when another user takes one of several actions on YouTube, such as uploading a video, rating a video, or commenting on a video." [source]

So your subscribers should be getting a notification when you upload a video or do something similar anyways. If you wanted to message each of them directly, I suppose you could use Subscriptions.list() with mySubscribers to get your list of subscribers, but I don't think there's a way to mass message them programmatically (seems like it could be easily abused).

Upvotes: 1

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