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# YouTube

## Configure

To configure a YouTube action, you simply need to copy and paste the YouTube URL that you would like to extract the content from into the URL field of the step.

<figure><img src="/files/i7p8KLCh1qKZCdVjAZR8" alt="Screenshot of the YouTube action in the MESA workflow builder. Spotlight the URL field."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The content of the webpage will be available as [variables](https://docs.getmesa.com/workflow-builder/fields/variables) via the variable selector in future steps.

<figure><img src="/files/XQ0QPHlM1oWhJYvIsSvI" alt="Screenshot of a MESA workflow step showing the extracted YouTube content available as variables. Spotlight the variable selector."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Technical Notes

* We retrieve the webpage data through scraping, which means we make multiple attempts to extract the information. If we’re unable to get the data, we return the following error message: "Data not found. Please try again with a different URL."<br>

  This error may appear if the data couldn’t be located or if the URL is invalid.