Connect to YouTube Analytics Data in RapidMiner

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for YouTube Analytics into your processes in RapidMiner. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for YouTube Analytics to transfer YouTube Analytics data to a process in RapidMiner.

Connect to YouTube Analytics in RapidMiner as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to YouTube Analytics:

1. Add a new database driver for YouTube Analytics: Click Connections -> Manage Database Drivers.
2. In the resulting wizard, click the Add button and enter a name for the connection.
3. Enter the prefix for the JDBC URL: jdbc:youtubeanalytics:
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.youtubeanalytics.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Enter the driver class: cdata.jdbc.youtubeanalytics.YouTubeAnalyticsDriver
6. Create a new YouTube Analytics connection: Click Connections -> Manage Database Connections.
7. Enter a name for your connection.
8. For Database System, select the YouTube Analytics driver you configured previously.
9. Enter your connection string in the Host box.

   YouTube Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. You can use the embedded CData OAuth credentials or you can register an application with Google to obtain your own.

   In addition to the OAuth values, to access YouTube Analytics data set ChannelId to the Id of a YouTube channel. You can obtain the channel Id in the advanced account settings for your channel. If not specified, the channel of the currently authenticated user will be used.

   If you want to generate content owner reports, specify the ContentOwnerId property. This is the Id of the copyright holder for content in YouTube's rights management system. The content owner is the person or organization that claims videos and sets their monetization policy.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the YouTube Analytics JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.youtubeanalytics.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical connection string is below:

   ContentOwnerId=MyContentOwnerId;ChannelId=MyChannelId;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
10. Enter your username and password if necessary.

You can now use your YouTube Analytics connection with the various RapidMiner operators in your process. To retrieve YouTube Analytics data, drag the Retrieve operator from the Operators view. With the Retrieve operator selected, you can then define which table to retrieve in the Parameters view by clicking the folder icon next to the "repository entry." In the resulting Repository Browser, you can expand your connection node to select the desired example set.

Finally, wire the output to the Retrieve process to a result, and run the process to see the YouTube Analytics data.