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Can I Programmatically Change the Visibility of YouTube Videos to Members-Only?

Posted on 04-30-2025 09:24 AM
mistervela
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I have over 2,000 videos that I would like to set to "members-only" visibility programmatically using Python. However, I’ve found that this might not be possible.
Is that correct? Isn’t there any way to automate this? Doing it manually, one by one, seems like an impossible task.

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a_aleinikov
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Hi @mistervela ,
You’re right — currently, the YouTube API lets you set visibility to public, private, or unlisted, but it does not support setting videos to “members-only” programmatically.

Unfortunately, there’s no official API or scriptable way to bulk change videos to members-only — it has to be done manually in YouTube Studio.

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