> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.getmesa.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.getmesa.com/connect/youtube.md).

# 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="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-13e6ee6e7dd1c49e761f8d17429c6b562cffd7f5%2Fimage%20(543).png?alt=media" 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="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-9dff3145f360df3e6490cee42f6a769251bc8d98%2Fimage%20(544).png?alt=media" 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.