How to connect YouTube to Inwista

YouTube is where your audience watches — Inwista is where the subtitles get made. Connect the two and you can publish finished subtitles straight onto your YouTube videos as caption tracks, and start new Inwista projects from videos already on your channel, without downloading or re-uploading anything. One connection covers both directions.

Before you start

Connecting integrations requires a workspace administrator role and an active subscription (any paid Inwista plan). On the YouTube side you need a channel on the Google account you connect. Importing works for videos on your own channel — public and unlisted videos can be imported, while private and live entries are shown but can't be fetched. Publishing captions works for all of your videos.

1. Connect your YouTube channel

Head to My workspace → Integrations, find the YouTube card and click Connect. A Google window opens: choose the account that owns your channel and approve the requested permission — it lets Inwista list your uploads and manage caption tracks, and nothing else. There are no API keys to copy; once you approve, the card shows Connected.

Inwista never sees your Google password, and you can withdraw the permission at any time — either from the card in Inwista or from your Google account's third-party access settings.

2. Start projects from your channel

In the new-project dialog, choose YouTube under Or import from. Your uploads are listed with their durations so you can pick the right one at a glance. Select a video and Inwista pulls it straight from YouTube on the server side — nothing is downloaded to your device, and the project starts transcribing like any other upload.

Private and live videos appear grayed out in the picker with a short note explaining why — YouTube doesn't allow them to be fetched. Unlisted videos import just fine.

3. Publish captions to a video

When your subtitles are done, open the project and click Export. On the Transcript tab, tick YouTube — captions in the Save to selector, pick the target video, and publish. The captions appear on the video as a track named Inwista Generated Captions, in the project's language — and if you've translated the project, the language selected in the export dialog decides which caption track is published.

Made changes after publishing? Just publish again: Inwista replaces the existing track for that language, so the video always carries your latest version. Publish each translated language separately to build up multi-language captions on the same video.

Viewers can switch the captions on from the player's CC menu, and you can review or fine-tune the track in YouTube Studio under Subtitles.

Disconnecting

Open Manage on the YouTube card and click Disconnect — imports and publishing stop right away, while all caption tracks already published stay on your videos. You can also revoke Inwista's access from your Google account at any time under Security → Your connections to third-party apps & services.