Application information
Orgo Obscura Analytics
A private, owner-operated analytics and research application that helps evaluate and improve The Obscura Files. It reads YouTube data. It cannot publish or change anything.
| Application | Orgo Obscura Analytics |
|---|---|
| Operated for | The Obscura Files YouTube channel, by the channel's owner, Noah Gandley |
| Purpose | Internal performance analysis and research to evaluate and improve the channel's documentaries |
| Availability | Private. It is not offered as a public service and does not accept sign-ups. |
| Google / YouTube access | Read-only, through YouTube API Services (two read-only OAuth scopes, listed below) |
| Current status | Inactive. Collection is switched off until the owner explicitly activates it, and Google authorization must be renewed before any collection resumes. |
| Services used | Google and YouTube APIs (data source), Orgo.ai (cloud infrastructure), OpenAI-based AI processing (analysis), Telegram (delivery of summaries to the owner) |
| Privacy policy | Orgo Obscura Analytics privacy policy |
| Contact | [email protected] |
What the application does
Orgo Obscura Analytics retrieves The Obscura Files' channel identification details and selected aggregate performance metrics from the channel's own YouTube Analytics reports. The channel owner uses the results to review how the channel's documentaries perform, and draws on them when planning and improving future work.
The analysis is internal. Some of it is done with an OpenAI-based AI model, and summaries can be delivered to the owner through Telegram. The application runs on cloud infrastructure from Orgo.ai. The privacy policy explains what each service receives, how data is stored and deleted, and the limits of that deletion.
It is a tool for looking back at results, not for acting on the channel. Everything it does with YouTube is reading.
Why it accesses YouTube data
The performance of a YouTube channel is recorded by YouTube. To analyze it outside YouTube Studio, an application has to request the data through Google's official APIs, the YouTube Data API and the YouTube Analytics API, and the channel owner has to authorize that access through Google's standard sign-in and consent screen.
That authorization is given by the owner of The Obscura Files for The Obscura Files. The application exists to analyze this channel only.
Read-only access
Google access is granted through OAuth scopes, which define exactly what an application may do. Orgo Obscura Analytics currently requests two, and both are read-only:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly |
View the authorizing account's YouTube information. This is a broad read-only scope. The application's design limits what it actually retrieves to channel identification details. |
|---|---|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly |
View YouTube Analytics reports for the authorizing account's YouTube content. |
Neither scope authorizes publishing or modifying channel content. With the access it requests, the application cannot:
- upload, edit or delete videos;
- change titles, descriptions, thumbnails, playlists or channel settings;
- post, edit, moderate or delete comments;
- subscribe, like, or take any other action on YouTube on the owner's behalf.
It also does not request YouTube's separate monetary-reporting scope.
How performance data supports internal analysis
Analytics reports turn a channel's history into evidence. Comparing documentaries side by side, and watching how each one performs over time, helps answer practical questions about the work, for example which subjects and storytelling choices hold viewers' attention.
YouTube Analytics reports describe audiences in aggregate. The analysis is about how videos perform, not about identifying individual viewers.
Private and owner-operated
Orgo Obscura Analytics is used by the owner of The Obscura Files for The Obscura Files. It is not a product, it is not available to other channels or the public, and it does not offer accounts. Details of how the data it retrieves is handled are set out in the privacy policy. Questions can be sent to [email protected].
Relationship to Google and YouTube
Orgo Obscura Analytics uses YouTube API Services. Use of the application is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Orgo Obscura Analytics is operated for The Obscura Files. It is not a Google or YouTube product, and its use of Google APIs does not imply endorsement by Google or YouTube.