LiveBroadcasts: insert

The API now supports the ability to mark your live broadcasts as "made for kids," and the liveBroadcast resource now contains a property that identifies the "made for kids" status of that live broadcast. The YouTube API Services Terms of Service and Developer Policies were also updated on 10 January 2020. For more information, please see the revision histories for the YouTube Live Streaming API Service and the YouTube API Services Terms of Service.

Creates a broadcast.

Common use cases

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/liveBroadcasts

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl

Parameters

The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.

Parameters
Required parameters
part string
The part parameter serves two purposes in this operation. It identifies the properties that the write operation will set as well as the properties that the API response will include.

The part properties that you can include in the parameter value are id, snippet, contentDetails, and status.
Optional parameters
onBehalfOfContentOwner string
This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners.

The onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter indicates that the request's authorization credentials identify a YouTube CMS user who is acting on behalf of the content owner specified in the parameter value. This parameter is intended for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. It allows content owners to authenticate once and get access to all their video and channel data, without having to provide authentication credentials for each individual channel. The CMS account that the user authenticates with must be linked to the specified YouTube content owner.
onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel string
This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners.

The onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel parameter specifies the YouTube channel ID of the channel to which a video is being added. This parameter is required when a request specifies a value for the onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter, and it can only be used in conjunction with that parameter. In addition, the request must be authorized using a CMS account that is linked to the content owner that the onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter specifies. Finally, the channel that the onBehalfOfContentOwnerChannel parameter value specifies must be linked to the content owner that the onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter specifies.

This parameter is intended for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. It allows content owners to authenticate once and perform actions on behalf of the channel specified in the parameter value, without having to provide authentication credentials for each separate channel.

Request body

Provide a liveBroadcast resource in the request body. For that resource:

  • You must specify a value for these properties:

    • snippet.title
    • snippet.scheduledStartTime
    • status.privacyStatus

  • You can set values for these properties:

    • snippet.title
    • snippet.description
    • snippet.scheduledStartTime
    • snippet.scheduledEndTime
    • status.privacyStatus
    • status.selfDeclaredMadeForKids
    • contentDetails.monitorStream.enableMonitorStream
    • contentDetails.monitorStream.broadcastStreamDelayMs
    • contentDetails.enableAutoStart
    • contentDetails.enableAutoStop
    • contentDetails.enableClosedCaptions
    • contentDetails.enableDvr
    • contentDetails.enableEmbed
    • contentDetails.recordFromStart
    Note: The property table documents any default values that are set for the properties listed above. The default values will be assigned in either of the following cases:
    • You do not specify values for those properties.
    • The part parameter value in your request does not specify the part that contains those properties.

Response

If successful, this method returns a liveBroadcast resource in the response body.

Errors

The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.

Error type Error detail Description
insufficientPermissions insufficientLivePermissions The request is not authorized to create the live broadcast.
insufficientPermissions livePermissionBlocked The user that authorized the request is unable to stream live video on YouTube at this time. Details explaining why the user cannot stream live video may be available in the user's channel settings at https://www.youtube.com/features.
insufficientPermissions liveStreamingNotEnabled The user that authorized the request is not enabled to stream live video on YouTube. The user can find more information at https://www.youtube.com/features.
invalidValue (400) invalidAutoStart The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the contentDetails.enableAutoStart property. Not all broadcasts support this setting.
invalidValue (400) invalidAutoStop The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the contentDetails.enableAutoStop property. You cannot modify the enableAutoStop setting for a persistent broadcast.
invalidValue (400) invalidDescription The liveBroadcast resource did not specify a valid value for the snippet.description property. The property's value can contain up to 5000 characters.
invalidValue (400) invalidEmbedSetting The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the contentDetails.enable_embed property. You cannot embed this broadcast.
invalidValue (400) invalidLatencyPreferenceOptions The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the contentDetails.latencyPreference property. Not all settings are supported with this latency preference.
invalidValue (400) invalidPrivacyStatus The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the status.privacy_status property.
invalidValue (400) invalidProjection The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the contentDetails.projection property. A default broadcast's projection cannot be set to 360.
invalidValue (400) invalidScheduledEndTime The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the snippet.scheduledEndTime property. The scheduled end time must follow the scheduled start time.
invalidValue (400) invalidScheduledStartTime The liveBroadcast resource contained an invalid value for the snippet.scheduledStartTime property. The scheduled start time must be in the future and close enough to the current date that a broadcast could be reliably scheduled at that time.
invalidValue (400) invalidTitle The liveBroadcast resource did not specify a valid value for the snippet.title property. The property's value must be between 1 and 100 characters long.
limitExceeded userBroadcastsExceedLimit The user has created too many live or scheduled broadcasts and must stop or delete some.
rateLimitExceeded userRequestsExceedRateLimit The user has sent too many requests in a given timeframe.
required (400) privacyStatusRequired The liveBroadcast resource must specify a privacy status. See valid privacyStatus values.
required (400) scheduledEndTimeRequired The liveBroadcast resource must specify the snippet.scheduledEndTime property.
required (400) scheduledStartTimeRequired The liveBroadcast resource must specify the snippet.scheduledStartTime property.
required (400) titleRequired The liveBroadcast resource must specify the snippet.title property.

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