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YouTube to Discord

Auto post YouTube videos to Discord

Tell your Discord server the moment you upload. ShortSync watches your YouTube channel and posts each new video to the channel you pick, with its thumbnail, title and link, through a webhook instead of a bot. The same workflow can post to X, Facebook and your other accounts too.

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Free plan · Set up once · Publish or save drafts

How to set it up

  1. 1

    Connect Discord

    In ShortSync, connect Discord with Add to Discord and pick the server and channel on Discord's own screen (you need Manage Server there), or paste a channel webhook from Server Settings > Integrations > Webhooks. No bot joins your server.

  2. 2

    Paste your YouTube channel

    On ShortSync's Upload page, open Repurpose and create a workflow. Under Post from, pick YouTube or podcast and paste your channel link (youtube.com/@name) or a playlist link. ShortSync shows the latest videos so you can check it found the right channel. No YouTube sign-in needed.

  3. 3

    Pick Discord and how to post

    Under Post to, select your Discord account (and any others you want). Choose Publish right away, or Save drafts to check each post first.

  4. 4

    Let it run

    About 15 minutes after a new video shows up in the channel's feed, ShortSync posts it to Discord. Videos from before you created the workflow aren't posted as new.

What the post looks like on Discord

  • A message in the channel you picked, with the image attached.
  • The title on the first line and the link below it, clickable.
  • Sent through the channel's webhook, so it shows the webhook's name and avatar, not a bot account.

Other ways to do it

All of these work. ShortSync suits you if you'd rather not build or host anything, or want the same post on several platforms.

A YouTube notification bot

Bots that announce uploads work well and many are free, but they need an invite with permissions on your server, and you set them up again per server.

Zapier, Make, Pabbly or IFTTT

Each has a template that watches a feed and posts to the platform. Flexible if you already pay for one, but you build and maintain the workflow and its message yourself, and each extra platform is another step.

Your own webhook script

Discord webhooks plus YouTube's RSS feed is all it takes, if you're happy to host and maintain a small script.

Good to know

  • ShortSync never downloads YouTube videos: each post links to the video on YouTube.
  • YouTube's feed lists a channel's latest 15 videos, so an old posts workflow can share up to those 15.
  • Any public channel or playlist works, including one you run for a client.
  • Messages can be up to 2,000 characters and files up to 10 MB, Discord's limit for servers without boosts.
  • Each Discord channel is its own connection, so one workflow can post to several channels or servers.
Read the setup guide

More automatic posting

Frequently asked questions

No. ShortSync posts through a channel webhook, which Discord creates when you click Add to Discord and pick the channel (or which you make yourself under Server Settings > Integrations > Webhooks). Nothing joins your member list.
Yes. Connect each channel, then pick all of them under Post to. You need the Manage Server permission in each server.
Choose Save drafts, then add the mention to the caption before publishing. Fully automatic posts use the title and link only.
No. Each post is the thumbnail, title and link, so people watch on YouTube and your views count there. To post the video natively to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, upload the file to ShortSync and schedule it to every platform at once.
ShortSync checks the feed about every 15 minutes, and YouTube's feed can take a few minutes to list a new upload, so expect the post within about half an hour.
Repurposing workflows are on every ShortSync plan, Free included. Each published post counts as one upload on your plan, like posting it yourself; drafts don't count. If you run out of uploads, new posts wait as drafts instead.

YouTube to Discord, on autopilot

Free plan, official platform APIs, publish or save drafts.

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