Importing YouTube Videos

What is Covered in this Guide

About YouTube and the Bulk Post Creator

How is this different from a YouTube Auto Feed

Steps to Set up a Youtube import

First Steps

Fine Tuning the Import Settings

Adding Items to the Bulk Import Queue

Next Steps - Adding Extra Post Settings

Bonus Feature

With CoPost, you can connect your YouTube channel and it will pull in any articles that it finds

About YouTube and the Bulk Post Creator

CoPost's bulk creator allows you to input your YouTube channel URL and then cherry pick videos straight from the videos it finds, it's a very fast way to share details and link to your long-form video on YouTube.

You can choose whether to let AI create the captions or define a reusable caption template using variables.

How is this different from a YouTube Auto Feed

There are benefits to each method of importing YouTube videos, to check out how to fully automate your YouTube channel, see the document How to Set up a YouTube Auto Feed

Using the bulk post creator with your YouTube channel acts as a single import of one or more items from the site, this is good if you want to:

• Manually import videos at any given time
• Have more control over the Scheduled date for each individual post
• Have more control over the platforms to assign to each individual post
• Import items as draft posts

You can basically change any aspect of the imported post before it is imported into CoPost

Steps to Set up a YouTube Import

First Steps

• Head over to the Bulk Post Creator area.
• Click on the Import button and choose YouTube Videos

• Add the URL to your channel into the dialog and hit View Videos

Fine Tuning the Import Settings

• Whilst the article previews are imported, you can adjust the settings for when we create the actual posts

1. Choose whether AI should create the captions, leave the switch off to use your own template

2. Use the variables presented inside the caption, this is necessary for both AI captions or your own template

The variables will be transformed into the actual data from the video such as the title and description

3. Choose the type of post, YouTube has two options, Single image or Link Post

4. Hit Save

Adding Items to the Bulk Import Queue

• From the feed preview on the left, simply click on the items that you would like to import
• CoPost will then start building the posts and adding them to the bulk import queue

Next Steps - Adding Extra Post Settings

• Now that we have the posts in the upload queue, we can proceed in a few different ways

1. Import the posts as they are

2. Apply a Post Slot Collection to the posts

3. Apply a group of default socials

4. Manually edit the settings of each post

1. Import the Posts as they are

• Simply click the Create button in the top right-hand side of the screen to import the posts as concepts

2. Apply a Post Slot Collection

Each post will have the properties of the collection applied

This step requires you to have at least one post slot collection set up that contains a posting plan schedule and a set of default socials

Read more about setting up a post slot collection Here

• Click on the Apply Plan button and select the collection from the dropdown menu

• This will apply the default socials from the collection to each post and also apply the next available queue slot to each post in chronological order
• The status indicator on the right hand side of each post should have turned Orange meaning that the posts are valid and ready to be scheduled

3. Apply a group of Default Socials

Choose on the spot what socials to apply to the posts

• Click on the Apply Socials button to open the settings dialog
• Choose the social platforms to apply and click save
• The socials will then be applied to all posts in the upload queue

4. Manually edit the settings of each post

Each post in the upload queue can be edited inline, this can take longer but gives more granular control over each posts settings

• Add media, edit the subject, caption, socials, schedule by clicking on the edit button

You can also drag media from your computer and drop over the media dropzone in a post to add

Bonus Feature

• If you have added a schedule to the posts and would like to do a last minute swap around, drag and drop to hot-swap the posts using the drag handle on the left-hand side of the post
• Simply drag the posts you would like to swap over the post that you would like to swap with and the scheduled dates will swap