LiveChatModerators: insert
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Adds a new moderator for the chat. The request must be authorized by the owner of the live chat's channel.
Common use cases
Request
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/liveChat/moderators
Parameters
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
| Parameters |
| Required parameters |
part |
string
The part parameter serves two purposes in this operation. It identifies the properties that the write operation will set as well as the properties that the API response returns. Set the parameter value to snippet. |
Request body
Provide a liveChatModerator resource in the request body.
For that resource:
Errors
The API does not define any error messages that are unique to this API method. However, this method could still return general API errors listed in the error message documentation.
Try it!
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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