Video API, REST: Channel.Create

Field

Description

organizationId

string

Required field. ID of the organization where the channel will be created.

The maximum string length in characters is 50.

title

string

Required field. Title of the channel to be displayed in interfaces.

The maximum string length in characters is 300.

description

string

Detailed description of the channel's purpose and content.

The maximum string length in characters is 4000.

labels

object (map<string, string>)

Custom user-defined labels as key:value pairs.
Maximum 64 labels per channel.
Keys must be lowercase alphanumeric strings with optional hyphens/underscores.
Values can contain alphanumeric characters and various symbols.

No more than 64 per resource. The maximum string length in characters for each value is 63. Each value must match the regular expression [-_.@:/0-9a-zA-Z]*. The maximum string length in characters for each key is 63. Each key must match the regular expression [a-z][-_0-9a-z]*.

settings

ChannelSettings

Configuration settings for the channel's behavior and features.
Includes settings for advertisements, content cleanup, and Referer verification.

Field

Description

advertisement

AdvertisementSettings

Settings for advertisement display and behavior.
Controls whether and how advertisements are shown with content in this channel.
If not specified, default advertisement settings are applied.

refererVerification

RefererVerificationSettings

Settings for HTTP Referer verification to control content embedding.
Restricts which domains can embed content from this channel.
If not specified or disabled, content can be embedded on any domain.

Field

Description

yandexDirect

YandexDirect

Yandex.Direct advertisement provider settings.
When specified, advertisements will be served through Yandex.Direct.

Includes only one of the fields yandexDirect.

Specifies the advertisement provider to use.
Only one provider can be active at a time.

Field

Description

enable

boolean

Enables or disables Partner Ad for both Live and VOD content.
When set to true, advertisements will be shown with content.
When set to false, no advertisements will be shown.

pageId

string (int64)

Yandex.Direct page identifier.
This ID is used to associate the channel with a specific page
in the Yandex.Direct system for targeting and reporting.

category

string (int64)

Yandex.Direct category identifier.
This ID is used to categorize the channel's content for
appropriate advertisement targeting and compliance.

Field

Description

enable

boolean

Enables or disables Referer verification for this channel.
When set to true, only requests from allowed domains will be permitted.
When set to false, content can be embedded on any domain.

allowedDomains[]

string

List of domains allowed to embed content from this channel.
Only relevant when enable is set to true.
Supports wildcard notation (e.g., "*.example.com") to allow all subdomains.

Each value must match the regular expression ^(?:\*\.)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}$\|^\*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$. The string length in characters for each value must be 4-255. The maximum number of elements is 100.

Field

Description

id

string

ID of the operation.

description

string

Description of the operation. 0-256 characters long.

createdAt

string (date-time)

Creation timestamp.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

createdBy

string

ID of the user or service account who initiated the operation.

modifiedAt

string (date-time)

The time when the Operation resource was last modified.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress.
If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.

metadata

CreateChannelMetadata

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation.
It typically contains the ID of the target resource that the operation is performed on.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

error

Status

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

response

Channel

The normal response of the operation in case of success.
If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete,
the response is google.protobuf.Empty.
If the original method is the standard Create/Update,
the response should be the target resource of the operation.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the response type, if any.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

Field

Description

channelId

string

ID of the channel being created.

Field

Description

code

integer (int32)

Error code. An enum value of google.rpc.Code.

message

string

An error message.

details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details.

Field

Description

id

string

Unique identifier of the channel.
This ID is used to reference the channel in API calls and URLs.

organizationId

string

Identifier of the organization to which this channel belongs.
Each channel must be associated with exactly one organization.

title

string

Title of the channel displayed in interfaces.
This is the primary display name shown to users.

description

string

Detailed description of the channel's purpose and content.
This optional field provides additional context about the channel.

defaultStylePresetId

string

Identifier of the default style preset applied to videos in this channel.
Videos, episodes, and playlists created in this channel
inherit this preset unless explicitly overridden.

createdAt

string (date-time)

Timestamp when the channel was initially created.
This value is set automatically by the system and cannot be modified.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

updatedAt

string (date-time)

Timestamp of the last modification to the channel or its settings.
This value is updated automatically whenever the channel is modified.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

labels

object (map<string, string>)

Custom user-defined labels as key:value pairs.
Maximum 64 labels per channel.
Labels can be used for organization, filtering, and metadata purposes.

settings

ChannelSettings

Configuration settings for the channel's behavior and features.
These settings control advertisements, content cleanup policies,
and embedding restrictions for all content in the channel.

Field

Description

advertisement

AdvertisementSettings

Settings for advertisement display and behavior.
Controls whether and how advertisements are shown with content in this channel.
If not specified, default advertisement settings are applied.

refererVerification

RefererVerificationSettings

Settings for HTTP Referer verification to control content embedding.
Restricts which domains can embed content from this channel.
If not specified or disabled, content can be embedded on any domain.

Field

Description

yandexDirect

YandexDirect

Yandex.Direct advertisement provider settings.
When specified, advertisements will be served through Yandex.Direct.

Includes only one of the fields yandexDirect.

Specifies the advertisement provider to use.
Only one provider can be active at a time.

Field

Description

enable

boolean

Enables or disables Partner Ad for both Live and VOD content.
When set to true, advertisements will be shown with content.
When set to false, no advertisements will be shown.

pageId

string (int64)

Yandex.Direct page identifier.
This ID is used to associate the channel with a specific page
in the Yandex.Direct system for targeting and reporting.

category

string (int64)

Yandex.Direct category identifier.
This ID is used to categorize the channel's content for
appropriate advertisement targeting and compliance.

Field

Description

enable

boolean

Enables or disables Referer verification for this channel.
When set to true, only requests from allowed domains will be permitted.
When set to false, content can be embedded on any domain.

allowedDomains[]

string

List of domains allowed to embed content from this channel.
Only relevant when enable is set to true.
Supports wildcard notation (e.g., "*.example.com") to allow all subdomains.

Each value must match the regular expression ^(?:\*\.)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}$\|^\*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$. The string length in characters for each value must be 4-255. The maximum number of elements is 100.