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Coverage

A search on Youtube polls either a text search or a channel’s uploads: provide query or channel (handle or id), not both. Both at once returns 400. channel is this Source’s own criterion: on the keyword it goes in the search’s overrides.filters (see Keywords). Interval: 60 to 86400 seconds. At most 20 active Youtube searches per Account. Each tick costs 5 credits, see Credits.

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What an event carries

The first tick establishes a silent baseline and emits nothing. Later ticks emit video.created with the full video object. webhookUrl is optional: without it the keyword still records every match, readable through GET /v1/keywords/{id}/events in the same shape. See Webhooks.
Following one channel’s uploads instead:

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Limits

Comments, captions and transcripts are not search criteria: a keyword tracks what is published, on a search or a channel. A video that is deleted or made private after capture keeps its recorded event.