What Scratch edits in YouTube
- Video titles, descriptions, and tags
- Video category, language, and privacy settings
- Video transcripts (English caption track)
- Playlist titles and descriptions
- Playlist order and channel sections
How it works
Scratch pulls your channel's videos and playlists into local files, one file per record. Your AI rewrites the prose — video titles, descriptions, and tags, plus playlist titles and descriptions. View counts, likes, durations, thumbnails, and publish dates stay read-only, and comments come down read-only for context. You can also edit a video's transcript, and Scratch writes it back by replacing the English caption track. Validators flag length overruns and any "never touch" field you name, right on the diff. You approve every change in Scratch. YouTube gets the edits back through the Data API.
Videos are update-only — you upload through YouTube — but playlists, playlist items, and channel sections support full editing. Connect your own Google OAuth app for the full daily quota; the shared app is capped at 100 API credits a day. Pulling transcripts is opt-in and quota-heavy.