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What YouTube can start in ZapCap
When New Item in YouTube Playlist in YouTube
then Add font in ZapCap
Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.
Everything your agent can do with YouTube and ZapCap
Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 26 actions
- New Item in YouTube Playlist
Triggers when a new item is added to a YouTube playlist.
- New Playlist in YouTube Channel
Triggers when a new playlist is added to a YouTube channel.
- New YouTube Activity
Triggers when a new activity is detected on a YouTube channel.
- New YouTube Channel Subscription
Triggers when a new channel is subscribed.
- Delete Video
Permanently deletes a YouTube video by video ID. Google's API returns HTTP 204 No Content on success — there is no response body to project, so this op reports only the HTTP status.
- Get Channel Activities
Gets recent activities from a youtube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.
- Get Channel Id By Handle
Retrieves the youtube channel id for a specific youtube channel handle.
- Get Channel Statistics
Gets detailed statistics for youtube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts.
- Get Video Fields
Reads back a video's snippet and status fields (title, description, categoryId, tags, privacyStatus) by video ID, or an empty items array if the video does not exist. Used as an independent, read-only verification target by other write ops' certification.
- List Caption Track
Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a youtube video, returning an empty list if no captions exist or failing if the video id is invalid or not found.
- List Channel Videos
Lists videos from a specified youtube channel, ensuring results are of `type: 'video'`.
- List User Playlists
Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=true.
- List User Subscriptions
Retrieves the authenticated user's youtube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.
- Search You Tube
Searches youtube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw api response.
- Subscribe Channel
Subscribes the authenticated user to a specified youtube channel, identified by its unique `channelid` which must be valid and existing.
- Video Details
Retrieves specified information parts (e.g., snippet, contentdetails, statistics) for a youtube video, identified by its id.
- Add font
Uploads a custom font file (TTF, OTF, WOFF or WOFF2) to ZapCap so it can be used in caption styling.
- Add video
Uploads a video (or audio file) to ZapCap from a public URL and returns the new video's id, which is used to create captioning tasks.
- Approve transcript
Approves a captioning task's transcript and starts rendering the video with the transcript currently stored on the task.
- Delete font
Deletes a custom font you uploaded to ZapCap.
- Generate video clips
Starts a ZapCap task that cuts short clips out of an uploaded long-form video. The task runs in the background; use Get clip task with the returned task id to check its status and fetch the clips.
- Get account balance
Returns the remaining API credit balance (USD) on the connected ZapCap account.
- Get clip task
Retrieves a ZapCap clip task (viral shorts generation) for a video, including its status and generated clips.
- Get font
Retrieves the details of one uploaded custom font: its file name, font family and style.
- Get transcript
Get the word-by-word transcript of a ZapCap captioning task.
- Get video task
Fetches the status and result of a captioning task by ID. An error occurs if the task is not found.
- List templates
Lists every captioning template available to the account, with its id, categories and preview links. Use a template id when creating a video processing task.
- List videos
Lists the videos uploaded to your ZapCap account, with their metadata and associated task ids.
- Process Video
Starts a captioning (processing) task on an uploaded ZapCap video using a template. The task runs asynchronously; use Get video task to check its status and fetch the rendered video.
- Update transcript
Updates an existing video task's transcript by ID before rendering.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
YouTube and ZapCap, answered
What can start an automation from YouTube?
Any of YouTube's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Item in YouTube Playlist, New Playlist in YouTube Channel, New YouTube Activity and New YouTube Channel Subscription. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in ZapCap when something happens in YouTube?
Any of ZapCap's 14 actions, including Update transcript, Add font, Add video and Approve transcript. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from ZapCap to YouTube?
ZapCap has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in YouTube. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ZapCap's API documentation and adds it.
Do I have to build a connector for YouTube or ZapCap?
No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.
What happens when something fails?
Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.