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Before connecting YouTube to Claude through Porter, creators and marketers usually ask about several channels, combining breakdowns, videos by day and other AI tools. After those come 4 fixes: missing recent days, recent views that drop, breakdowns that don't add up and averages that look wrong.
Can I connect several YouTube channels?
Yes. Connect each channel in Porter; each one bills as one data source account, and you name the channel you mean when you ask Claude.
Can I cross two breakdowns, like traffic source by device?
No. YouTube serves one breakdown per question, so Porter keeps each breakdown in its own daily table. Ask for traffic source and device separately and let Claude compare the answers. A breakdown also serves fewer metrics than the channel by day, so ask for likes, comments and subscribers on the channel as a whole.
Can I see each video day by day?
No. YouTube does not serve video by day, so the top videos table covers the whole date range you ask for: one row per video, up to the 200 most viewed. Titles and thumbnails are the videos' current ones, and a deleted or private video keeps its metrics but has no title.
Does Porter's YouTube connection work in other AI tools?
Yes. The same Porter account and connection work in any AI tool that supports MCP, with the same channel and fields.
Troubleshooting
Why are the last days missing?
YouTube publishes a day of channel analytics about three days later: on September 28, 2026 at 16:23 UTC the last day available was September 25. A missing recent day means YouTube has not processed it yet, not zero views, so a report for yesterday comes back empty.
Why did last week's views go down?
Figures for the most recent days can still drop slightly after YouTube publishes them, most likely because YouTube removes invalid views after the fact. In one channel measured on October 1, 2026, views had dropped by 1, 23 and 110 on days that were already 6 to 11 days old. Treat the last week as provisional.
Why doesn't a breakdown add up to the channel's views?
YouTube leaves a small unclassified remainder out of most breakdowns. Content type adds up to the channel's views exactly; traffic source, device, subscribed status, playback location and operating system land slightly below. In the channel measured, out of 80,235 views, traffic source added up to 80,212 and operating system to 79,672, about 0.7% below.
Why do average view duration and percentage viewed look wrong?
They are averages, so adding them across days gives a meaningless number: 28 days of average view duration summed to 3,916 seconds while the real average was 144. Porter averages them instead, but a simple average of days can differ slightly from YouTube Studio's figure for the period, which weighs each day by its views. A Short that plays in a loop can also show more than 100% viewed.
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