Daily

Get a daily summary of new comments

Each day you read what viewers said in a few lines, plus the questions worth answering.

Runs: Daily
Apps: YouTube
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: API key (public comments)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 6pm, summarise new comments on my channel and list the questions I should reply to, with links.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A YouTube channel with a few thousand views a day collects hundreds of comments each week, and reading them in YouTube Studio means scrolling past emoji and one-word replies to find the useful ones. Creators miss genuine questions about a tutorial step, a request for a topic or a bug report in the video, and the viewer who asked never gets an answer.

Each day, comment threads on your channel are listed and only those not seen before are kept. ClickRuntime's built-in AI summarises what viewers are saying, flags questions you may want to answer and the themes that recur, and emails the summary to you.

Creators with growing channels, and teams who manage a channel for a brand, find it saves the most time. A few minutes with the summary replaces scrolling through comments across all your videos.

What you get out of it

Genuine questions are found
Viewers who ask something specific are picked out of hundreds of short reactions, so you can answer them and show the audience that you pay attention. Viewers who get an answer tend to watch more of your videos and recommend them.
Video ideas surface from feedback
Repeated requests such as please cover the new update appear in a summary, which gives you topics your audience has already asked for. That makes planning easier because your audience has already told you what they want.
You spot problems fast
If several viewers report an error in a tutorial or poor audio, the summary tells you the same day, so you can pin a correction or reupload. Fast fixes keep a small mistake from turning into a pile of identical complaints.
Reading comments no longer takes an hour
A summary read in a few minutes replaces scrolling Studio, which matters when you also have filming and editing to do. That time goes back to filming and editing, where it adds more value.
Each comment is considered once
A saved record of seen comments means yesterday's summary does not repeat today, so you only read new feedback each morning. Reading only the new comments keeps each morning's email short and useful.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a day, ClickRuntime collects the comments posted on your YouTube channel since the last check, so nothing is counted twice.
AI reads them and sums up what viewers said in three lines.
It then lists the questions worth answering.
You get the summary by email, with the number of new comments in the subject.

Before it runs live

Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a daily summary of new commentstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · 23 new commentsMost viewers liked the pacing; a few want a part 2 on pricing. Questions: Does this work with Acme Cloud? Can you share the template?

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other YouTube steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

ai_summary_of_new_comments.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, notify, report_fetched

CHANNEL_ID = "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    threads = http.get("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads", params={
        "key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY"), "part": "snippet",
        "allThreadsRelatedToChannelId": CHANNEL_ID, "order": "time", "maxResults": 100,
    }).json()["items"]
    since = state.get("since") or ""
    new = [t["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"] for t in threads
           if t["snippet"]["topLevelComment"]["snippet"]["publishedAt"] > since]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"summary": "No new comments"}
    text = "\n".join(f"- {c['textOriginal'][:300]}" for c in new)
    summary = ai.generate(text, system="Summarise these YouTube comments in 3 lines, then list questions worth answering.", max_output_tokens=400).text
    state.set("since", max(c["publishedAt"] for c in new))
    notify.email_me(f"{len(new)} new comments", summary)
    return {"comments": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it cover comments on all my videos?

Yes. It lists comment threads across the channel, which includes all videos and community posts that allow comments. If you want it limited to a particular video or series, your AI assistant can add a filter before you approve it.

Will it reply to comments for me?

No, this one only summarises. It does not post on your channel. You read the summary, then reply in YouTube Studio yourself, or use a separate automation if you want a drafted reply set up with approval.

How does it deal with spam and abusive comments?

The summary tends to treat repeated promotional or abusive comments as a category rather than reproducing them in detail, so they do not take up your reading time. Moderation itself remains with you in YouTube Studio.

What permissions does it need?

API key (public comments). Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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