generated: '2026-06-20'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/libraries and the Google API client
  library registries. YouTube APIs are consumed through Google's general-purpose,
  first-party API client libraries (the same libraries used across all Google
  Discovery-based APIs); YouTube does not publish YouTube-specific SDK packages.
description: >-
  Official Google API client libraries that carry the YouTube Data, Analytics,
  Reporting, and Live Streaming APIs, plus the first-party embed/player JS
  libraries. Marked official:true only for Google-published packages.
packages:
- language: python
  registry: pypi
  name: google-api-python-client
  url: https://pypi.org/project/google-api-python-client/
  install: pip install google-api-python-client
  official: true
  notes: Discovery client; build('youtube','v3', ...), youtubeAnalytics 'v2', youtubereporting 'v1'.
- language: javascript
  registry: npm
  name: googleapis
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/googleapis
  install: npm install googleapis
  official: true
  notes: Node.js client exposing google.youtube('v3'), youtubeAnalytics, youtubereporting.
- language: php
  registry: packagist
  name: google/apiclient
  url: https://packagist.org/packages/google/apiclient
  install: composer require google/apiclient
  official: true
  notes: Google_Service_YouTube, Google_Service_YouTubeAnalytics, Google_Service_YouTubeReporting.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: google-apis-youtube_v3
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/google-apis-youtube_v3
  install: gem install google-apis-youtube_v3
  official: true
  notes: Google Cloud auto-generated per-API gem; siblings youtube_analytics_v2, youtube_partner_v1.
- language: java
  registry: maven
  name: com.google.apis:google-api-services-youtube
  url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.google.apis/google-api-services-youtube
  install: 'implementation("com.google.apis:google-api-services-youtube:v3-rev+")'
  official: true
- language: dotnet
  registry: nuget
  name: Google.Apis.YouTube.v3
  url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Apis.YouTube.v3
  install: dotnet add package Google.Apis.YouTube.v3
  official: true
- language: go
  registry: pkg.go.dev
  name: google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3
  url: https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3
  install: go get google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3
  official: true
- language: javascript
  registry: web
  name: IFrame Player API
  url: https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api
  install: '<script src="https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api"></script>'
  official: true
  notes: First-party embeddable player JS; not a registry package. See components/youtube-components.yml.
- language: swift
  registry: cocoapods
  name: youtube-ios-player-helper
  url: https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper
  install: pod 'youtube-ios-player-helper'
  official: true
  notes: First-party iOS helper wrapping the IFrame Player API (repo youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper).