# Retrieve Information from YouTube

To retrieve information from YouTube, create a new fetch task by following these steps. The connector runs fetch tasks automatically, based on the schedule that is configured in the configuration file.

To create a new fetch task

1. Stop the connector.
2. Open the configuration file in a text editor.

3. In the `[FetchTasks]` section of the configuration file, specify the number of fetch tasks using the `Number` parameter. If you are configuring the first fetch task, type `Number=1`. If one or more fetch tasks have already been configured, increase the value of the `Number` parameter by one (1). Below the `Number` parameter, specify the names of the fetch tasks, starting from zero (0). For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask1

4. Below the `[FetchTasks]` section, create a new TaskName section. The name of the section must match the name of the new fetch task. For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask1

       [MyTask1]

5. In the new section, set the following configuration parameters:

   `ProxyHost` | The host name or IP address of the proxy server to use to access YouTube.
   `ProxyPort` | The port of the proxy server to use to access YouTube.
   `LuaConfigureScript` | The name of the Lua script to use to retrieve information. Set this parameter to `configure_youtube.lua`.
   `ApiKey` | The API key to use to access the YouTube API. You can obtain an API Key from https://code.google.com/apis/console/.

6. Set one of the following parameters to choose how to retrieve information from YouTube:

   - To retrieve information about videos that match a query, set the parameter `Query` to the query to use to search YouTube.
   - To retrieve information about videos that belong to a specific channel, set the parameter `ChannelID` to the ID of the channel.
   - To retrieve information about videos that belong to a specific user, set the parameter `Username` to the user name of the user.

7. (Optional) Set the following parameters to specify how much information to retrieve:

   `MaxResults` | The maximum number of videos to retrieve information from.
   `MaxComments` | The maximum number of comments to retrieve for each video. To ignore comments, set this parameter to `0` (zero).

8. Save and close the configuration file.

   You can now start the connector.

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