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Update YouTube video

PATCH /v1/youtube/videos/:id scope write

Edits the title, description and tags of a video (with dryRun: true it only shows the before and after, without saving).

HeadersAuthorization: Bearer praeko_… and X-Praeko-Contract: en. Always send both.

Parameters

Name In Description
id path YouTube video id.
Idempotency-Key header Idempotency key (1 to 255 visible characters, for example a UUID). Repeating the SAME request with the same key within 24 h returns the stored response (with Idempotent-Replayed: true) without running it again; a different request with the same key returns 422 idempotency_key_reuse; a request still in progress returns 409 idempotency_in_progress. 5xx errors are not stored. The key is scoped per workspace and per route. See Retry a request safely.

Request body

JSON. Required fields must be sent; the others can be left out. At least one of title, description and tags. Start with dryRun: true.

Field Type Description
title (optional) string New title (1 to 100 characters, without < or >). Up to 100 characters.
description (optional) string New description (up to 5000 characters; "" clears it). Up to 5000 characters.
tags (optional) string[] New tags (up to 500 characters in total).
dryRun (optional) boolean true only returns the before and after, without writing to YouTube. Default: false.
Body example
{
  "title": "The test that only failed on Mondays",
  "tags": [
    "programming",
    "testing"
  ],
  "dryRun": true
}

Example

curl -X PATCH "https://praeko.app/v1/youtube/videos/dQw4w9WgXcQ" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRAEKO_KEY" \
  -H "X-Praeko-Contract: en" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "title": "The test that only failed on Mondays",
  "tags": [
    "programming",
    "testing"
  ],
  "dryRun": true
}'

Response

Success status When
200 Success.
Response 200
{
  "id": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "before": {
    "title": "The failing test",
    "description": "",
    "tags": []
  },
  "after": {
    "title": "The test that only failed on Mondays",
    "description": "",
    "tags": [
      "programming",
      "testing"
    ]
  },
  "changed": true,
  "written": false
}

Errors

Status code When
400 empty_body The request body is empty.
400 invalid_json The request body is not a JSON object.
413 body_too_large The request body is larger than 1 MB.
422 invalid_field Title, description or tags over the limit.
409 youtube_not_connected YouTube is not connected.
502 youtube_error YouTube rejected the request.
422 idempotency_key_reuse The Idempotency-Key was already used with a different request (different method, path, query or body).
409 idempotency_in_progress A request with the same Idempotency-Key is still in progress (retry in a moment).
409 idempotency_response_too_large The original response was larger than 256 KB and was not stored; fetch the resource with GET instead.

Errors on any route

Status code When
401 unauthorized The Authorization: Bearer … header is missing.
401 invalid_api_key The key does not exist.
401 revoked_api_key The key has been revoked.
401 expired_api_key The key has expired.
403 forbidden The key's scope is not enough for this route (see the scope badge).
429 rate_limited The per-minute request limit was exceeded.

The body of every error is { "error": { "code", "message", "details"? } }. See all error codes.

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